When most reviews talk about a simple story portrayed without ceremony, it was exactly that that lead the jury to give this movie Prix de la Camera d’Or at Cannes in 1995. Though that may not have been my primary reason for watching this film, I come out adding one more director to my favourite list.
The streets of Tehran are busy with the preparations for New Year. Everyone is busy decorating their house to welcome the next year. Seven-year-old Razieh has developed a fascination for a round goldfish with a lot of fins. She wants to buy it but the price seems unreasonable to her family. After convincing her mother, she leaves with the entire money left with the family to buy presents. The little girl loses the money twice, tackles strangers, struggles with helplessness and yet does not give up. A lot goes on between...
The streets of Tehran are busy with the preparations for New Year. Everyone is busy decorating their house to welcome the next year. Seven-year-old Razieh has developed a fascination for a round goldfish with a lot of fins. She wants to buy it but the price seems unreasonable to her family. After convincing her mother, she leaves with the entire money left with the family to buy presents. The little girl loses the money twice, tackles strangers, struggles with helplessness and yet does not give up. A lot goes on between...
- 2/7/2020
- by Arun Krishnan
- AsianMoviePulse
While I was at Edinburgh a couple of weeks ago, the 8 ½ Foundation did a special event to advertise their aim to show world cinema for children and they showed audience the 1995 award winning film from director Jafar Panahi, The White Balloon, and I personally think it deserves to be seen and has a simple story that anyone can watch and enjoy.
The story is simply written to be ideal for any family audience and the film follows seven-year-old Razieh (Aida Mohammadkhani) as she desperately tries to plead with her mother to get a goldfish on the same day as the Iranian New Year.
Eventually managing to get some money to buy the goldfish, young Raziah sets off into the town in an attempt to buy her goldfish. However, along the way she bumps into a sneaky snake charmer who tries to take advantage of her money and then when she...
The story is simply written to be ideal for any family audience and the film follows seven-year-old Razieh (Aida Mohammadkhani) as she desperately tries to plead with her mother to get a goldfish on the same day as the Iranian New Year.
Eventually managing to get some money to buy the goldfish, young Raziah sets off into the town in an attempt to buy her goldfish. However, along the way she bumps into a sneaky snake charmer who tries to take advantage of her money and then when she...
- 7/11/2010
- by Martyn Warren
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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