Bashu, the Little Stranger (Bashu, gharibeye koochak)

" او، مثل همه‌ى بچه‌ها، فرزند آفتاب و زمين است."

Maede

scrubbing i cannot wash this pain away the memories the colour of this skin the tone in this voice keep scrubbing the crashing may end the screaming, the burning where are you, mother? where are you, father? brother, sister?… keep on scrubbing this skin of…

Graham

با اینکه تقریبا نیمی از دیالوگ های فیلم رو متوجه نشدم به علت لهجه غلیظ گیلکی کاراکتر های فیلم ، اما بیضایی با زبان تصویر به بهترین شکل ممکن جهانش رو توصیف می‌کنه. میشه از پارادوکس بین سکانس مریضی نایی و باشو حرف زد و یا سکانسی که باشو بعد از زمین خوردن به جای برداشتن سنگ و…

Mamali Mehz

an appeal to compassion, to consider the innocent. anti-war insofar as the only destruction we see is during the first few minutes, wholesale though it is. after this the fighting recedes entirely because we are concerned only with the psychological effects of the worst…

jeliben

Drum circles save lives, i've been saying it for years.

𖤓DeBry Guy☿

زمانی که متضاد ترین چیزها تبدیل به یک هارمونی بیاد ماندنی میشود مادر از شمال و گیلان و پسری از جنوب در کنار هم با تفاوت رنگ و زبان به یک همبستگی مادر پسری میرسند آن هم در ضد جنگی ترین فیلم ایران فیلمی که با آن بیضایی ثابت کرد جنبه های دیگری از هشت سال جنگ برای بازگو کردن…

Richard

Timely to be watching a film that deals with the horrific consequences of the Iran-Iraq war at a geopolitical time where it's being insisted by the reactionary press that the US has the best interests of the Iranian people at heart. In parts deeply sad but overall a very…

Div_vs_film

When his entire family is killed in an air raid during the Iran-Iraq War, a young Afro-Iranian boy escapes north to a place where he knows nobody and doesn't speak the language in this solemn, slightly otherworldly war drama from Bahram Beyzai. With little to no dialogue,…

abystopia

what an amazing hidden gem of a film, directed by bahram beyzai. it's about a traumatized young boy, bashu, who is lost in a world of smoke, ash and confusion, as he learns that his family has been killed in bombings on his village. throughout the movie he has flashbacks of…

olivia