Synopsis of story:
Little Ali lost his sister's shoes. In order not to increase the burden on his parents, the brother and sister agreed to wear Ali's sneakers to school in turn. Every day after school, my sister runs back quickly to change Ali's shoes. For this reason, Ali is often late and punished. Ali tried his best to buy a new pair of shoes for his sister. After working as a gardener with his father to make money, he first hinted that his father would buy a new pair of shoes for his sister. Unexpectedly, the bicycle brake failed, and the father and son hurried home, and the matter of helping their sister buy shoes was also ruined.
Finally, Little Ali decided to take part in the long-distance race, because the third prize was a pair of sports shoes. Ali, who was bent on winning the third place, won the championship unexpectedly, and his dream of earning a pair of shoes for his sister was shattered again. Disappointed little Ali took off his worn sneakers and dipped his blood-stained feet in the pool. The red goldfish swam around on his injured foot. ...
This film won the 1997 Montreal International Film Festival for best film, best director and best film voted by the audience. 1999 Oscar nomination for best foreign language film. This is the first time in the history of Iranian film that it has been nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, which continues the unique and simple style of Iranian film. Like many Iranian films, the film is fresh and simple, sincerely portrays the real life of Iranians, shows the kindness of humanity hidden in the embarrassing and difficult civilian life, and leads the audience back to the pure and clear world.
Barron
Synopsis of story:
1989, after the Soviet Union withdrew from Afghanistan,1400,000 Afghan refugees poured into Iran. The younger generation of Afghan refugees was born in Iran. They are struggling in poverty, and most people can only do the hardest work, such as construction, with meager wages.
A girl named Barron had to dress up as a woman to work on a construction site in order to support her family. The foreman's mother asked the thin "boy" to take charge of the team's food instead of his nephew Latif. The angry Latif kept obstructing Barron's work. However, when he discovered Barron's authenticity, he not only liked her, but also tried his best to help her and her family.
The film was directed by Maki Megiddi, the director who won the Oscar nomination for best foreign language film for Iran for the first time. He became famous in the international film industry because he successfully directed films such as Children in Paradise (Little Shoes) and Colors of Paradise. Different from the excessive sensationalism of Color of Heaven and Earth, Barron is McGidie's most realistic work. Generate demonstrated his power to impress the audience by saving his feelings bit by bit through a series of simple and ordinary events. It is still a sad and touching film, but McGidie has a sense of humor and warmth in this sad mood.
Recommend other works directed by Maged McKidd: Blackboard, Colors of Heaven, Defeat the Devil, Eyes and Boycott.
The taste of cherry
Also known as: cherry flavor/cherry flavor
Director: Abbas Chiaro Stamey.
The story is simple. A middle-aged man wants to commit suicide. (Why? I don't know and I don't need to know. He drove around in a jeep looking for someone who could bury his body. He searched and searched on the construction site, looking for workers, soldiers, scavengers, seminary students and so on, but no one wanted to do such a thing for money. He ran into a wall everywhere. Finally, an old man working in a museum agreed to his grandson's request for medical treatment, but told him a story about himself. It turns out that the old man once thought about suicide. He found a cherry tree to hang himself. He didn't want the branches to be weak and the rope to break. So he sat under the tree and ate cherries one by one. Having eaten enough, he decided to go on living.
We don't know whether the hero is dead or not. The movie didn't tell us that. It is suspense, with an open ending and a sense of deconstruction. But it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter whether he is dead or not. What Abbas wants to express has been expressed in the process of searching.
blackboard
Samira Makmabaf (a young female directors)
Synopsis: Two wandering teachers are carrying big blackboards, looking for pupils who are willing to pay tuition fees. On the way, they met a group of children smuggling contraband and a group of old people fleeing Iran. The blackboard is not only a carrier for them to persistently impart knowledge to the poor, but also a letter of love to the beloved woman, and it is also a splint for the children who slipped and were injured ... There is no complicated plot and no sensational dialogue, but the shaky lens and extremely realistic techniques can make you unconsciously moved.
Les Fleurs
Directed by Darius mchenry.
Synopsis: Leila and Leirang are a happy newlywed, but Leila is found to be infertile. Although the husband who loves her deeply has repeatedly expressed indifference to this, her husband's mother keeps forcing her son to remarry and have children. Under the double pressure of her husband and in-laws, Laila, who is kind and intelligent, made a decision to change her future life. ...
White balloon
Director Jaffa Panahi
The beginning of the film is quite similar to another Iranian film Little Shoes: at the beginning of the Islamic New Year, a cute little girl in a little red dress pestered her mother to buy a "fat dancing bride-like" goldfish, and finally got the money with the help of her brother, but lost it on the way. When I saw this, I thought it wouldn't be another little shoe. But the story goes on, but it revolves around the story that two brothers and sisters want to get the money that fell into the canal.
Although this story is also related to the children of poor families and their expectations, it is less sad and more humorous than little shoes. Plain narration is the rhythm of life. Although it lacks the twists and turns of general feature films and deliberately avoids many seemingly imminent contradictions and conflicts, it is endless between saying and not saying.
Where is my friend's home?
Director Abbas.
Synopsis: Amo, the 8-year-old hero, mistakenly took the exercise book at the same table. If the deskmate can't hand in his homework because of this, he will be scolded by the teacher, so Amo resolutely picked up the misplaced exercise book and ran to a distant place to find a friend to return it to him. After all the hardships, Amo still can't find a friend's home. As night fell, the last hope disappeared. When he got home, it was already late. He decided to become a gunman to help his friend with his homework. ...
Life continues
199 1 year, an earthquake occurred in the small village in the film where is my friend's home, which was filmed by Abbas. Out of concern for the safety of the cute little boy in the film, Abbas and his son drove back to the old place to find the whereabouts of the little boy, and made the film life proceed accordingly. In this film, Abbas recorded what he saw and heard along the way in a way similar to a road film. In the ruins of a dilapidated building, he not only expressed a feeling of compassion, but also praised the indomitable people in the broken home. "The dead are gone, and the living still need to live." At the same time, the film also tries to reflect on the disaster and life, and even thinks that its artistic works can't bring any direct benefits to people, and makes a self-mockery.
Lovers under the olive tree
Abbas's film style is very uniform. He likes to integrate documentaries into feature films, which makes people confused about where reality is and where drama is. He also likes to use an "opportunity" to express the personalities of various people in the film, such as "suicide" in "The Taste of Cherry" and "returning homework" in "Where is my friend's home", and so on. This is not only reflected in each of his films, but also promoted. He can use several films to represent an event and a place, such as the "village trilogy" (also known as the "Iranian trilogy"). He used three films in succession to show people in the same place, and the last one in this series was Lover under the Olive Tree.
Just like the lush olive groves and small flowers jumping into the camera from time to time in the film, the love story on the ruins is also full of greenery and hope. Although the result of the story is not explained carefully in the final shot, it is meaningful. As the last part of the "Village Trilogy", it reflects the indomitable resilience of Iranians in the face of disasters and their confidence in rebuilding their homes. It echoes "Where is a Friend's Home" from a distance and is the best finishing touch.
This film, together with Where is My Friend's Home and Life Will Go on, constitutes the "Country Trilogy".
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