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Harry Potter et le Prisonnier d'Azkaban
7.97
Harry Potter et le Prisonnier d'Azkaban
Harry Potter et la Chambre des secrets
7.47
Harry Potter et la Chambre des secrets
Harry Potter à l'école des sorciers
7.77
Harry Potter à l'école des sorciers
Diversion
6.65
Diversion
Quand vient la nuit
7.06
Quand vient la nuit
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
6.53
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Glass Onion : Une histoire à couteaux tirés
7.17
Glass Onion : Une histoire à couteaux tirés
Deep Cover
6.77
Deep Cover
Exhuma
6.97
Exhuma
Mission: Impossible
7.25
Mission: Impossible
Poker Face
7.87
Poker Face
The Ugly Stepsister
7.08
The Ugly Stepsister
La Légende de Klaus
8.28
La Légende de Klaus
L'enfant sauvage
7.48
L'enfant sauvage
Companion
6.94
Companion
Adolescence
8.27
Adolescence
Les lignes courbes de Dieu
7.16
Les lignes courbes de Dieu
Comment devenir riche (grâce à sa grand-mère)
7.98
Comment devenir riche (grâce à sa grand-mère)
Shame
7.26
Shame
Le Poison
7.97
Le Poison
Vacances à Venise
7.14
Vacances à Venise
3 Billboards : Les Panneaux de la vengeance
8.18
3 Billboards : Les Panneaux de la vengeance
La Jeune Femme à l'aiguille
7.58
La Jeune Femme à l'aiguille
Demolition
7.07
Demolition
Tu ne mentiras point
6.74
Tu ne mentiras point

Reviews4

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Fasle kargadan

Fasle kargadan

6.3
10
  • Aug 5, 2013
  • The best movie made by Bahman Ghobadi

    While no one doubts the magnificent cinematography, there is much more about this brilliant masterpiece comparable to the works of great masters such as Angelopoulos. Although the movie events happen in Iran, they are all about universal themes such as love, jealousy, destruction and the desperate search to discover the meaning of the Being.

    The Iranian revolution and its destructive impact upon the society, the pandemic injustice that the revolution promised to end but did not and yet exacerbated, the hostile environment and its impact upon the afflicted families, are all depicted with rigor and with poetic images, rather than with cliché dialog and rhetoric. The movie manages to keep an appropriate pace letting the scenes find their desired depth and yet avoiding boredom, and the performances are brilliant. What more would you expect from a movie anyway than to show you innovative images and to share a new kind of experience with you, which you would have had to pay a great price to experience it first hand? A master piece 10/10.
    Deshne

    Deshne

    6.4
    6
  • Mar 18, 2012
  • A true example of the early avant-garde cinema in Iran

    "The Dagger" is a special movie in both the theme and style, i.e. it is not conforming to the conventions of the main stream Persian movies of the time. The film, although following a romantic narration accompanied by a famous sing from "Dariush Eghbali", puts its focus on the anomalies of a transforming society. The ugly face of seemingly legal prostitution, which bears a true criminal and compulsive form inside, is manifest through the movie. Scenes of fighting, collective drinking and prison, filled by bitter wit, and usually filmed in immense, empty and isolated locations convoy a sense of emptiness and brutal despair, experienced by many lower class Iranians at the time. None less to say that the striking tones of music intensify this expression.

    While one might argue about the political and economical situation in whose context the events occur, the film zooms on individuals, and they search for dignity and respect (a modern western concept of course). One could even notice signs of a quest for revenge, due to a powerful Oedipus complex, in the brutal and controlling manner of the antagonist "Muhammad Deshneh", the master of the harlot house. He reveals at the beginning that he has been born in such a place himself, and therefore considers all of the harlots in the quarter as his own mother. These notions however are subtly expressed during the narration, so that they do not annoy the audience.

    In conclusion, The Dagger might be regarded as a representative of the first avant-garde Persian movies, with their emphasis on realism and human dignity, and usually convoying a social message. This new current was halted temporarily by the Revolution of 1979, but has now been able to conquer to a great extent the barriers of censorship and dictatorship, and even gain world wide renown with movies such as "A Separation".
    Eros + massacre

    Eros + massacre

    7.4
    8
  • Apr 13, 2008
  • Symbolic and different

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