The three central characters of Bahman Ghobadi's new film No One Knows About Persian Cats -- a Mates of State-type musical duo and their would-be manager, Nader -- spend a great deal of the film's 101 minutes crammed on the...... more »
FilmCritic entries tagged "Bahman Ghobadi"
If timing is everything, then Marooned in Iraq is sitting on top of the world. Acclaimed Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi's follow-up to 2000's heartrending A Time for Drunken Horses once again traverses the treacherous border between Iraq and Iran with...... more »
Now here's a story the modern moviegoer can relate to: On the Iranian side of the Kurdish border with Iraq, a young boy names Ayoub (Ayoub Ahmadi) -- along with three brothers and two sisters -- toil away as day-laboring...... more »
