Monday, April 30, 2007

Daniel Butler Birthday Edition

The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)
directed by Abbas Kiarostami
rating: 5 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from Netflix

My weekend revelation (I who disliked Taste of Cherry), compassionate and gentle and so beautifully invested in a very distant physical space. Kiarostami’s technical originality is less a uniquely foreign sensibility than a uniquely cinematic one, and his film is an exercise in gratitude, learned at the expense of a likeable protagonist - but softly, like the wake of passing boats against a dock.