REVIEW: Famke Janssen does Alvy Singer? Breiman's Tale of "Love and Sex"
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Read More »All Hail Kiarostami! "The Wind Will Carry Us"by Mark Peranson Three mysterious strangers ride into an isolated outpost, their purposes unclear though we presume them to be nefarious two of them are never seen. Their bossy leader proceeds to befriend a small child, ingratiating himself with the community's inhabitants as he takes instructions from another unseen controller and awaits the death of a town elder. What is this, some kind of Western?The only thing in the above, bareboned description to give away that we're in Iran actually, Kurdistan is the presence of the small child, by now as common in Western conceptions of Iranian film as ...
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RT @indiewire: All the winners in the Un Certain Regard section at #Cannes: http://t.co/xG5pD4GQnx
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RT @indiewire: All the winners in the Un Certain Regard section at #Cannes: http://t.co/xG5pD4GQnx
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RT @indiewire: All the winners in the Un Certain Regard section at #Cannes: http://t.co/xG5pD4GQnx
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RT @ChrisOhlson: favorite headline in a long time, "The Best 3D Movie at Cannes Is Directed By Jean-Luc Godard" via @indiewire http://t.co/KjTprz72cx
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