The Iranian film Badkonake sefid was shown in the U.S. with the title The White Balloon (1995). The movie was co-written and directed by Jafar Panahi. (The famous Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami was a co-writer.)
The film stars Aida Mohammadkhani as Razieh, a seven-year-old girl who is determined to buy a beautiful goldfish for the New Year celebration. The movie moves forward as Razieh tries to get the money for the goldfish. Characters appear and disappear, new characters take their place, and things don't turn out quite as you expected them to turn out.
This is a wonderful movie, mostly because director Panahi was able to draw such a superb performance from Aida. (Two years later, she again starred in a movie by Panahi--The Mirror.)
We saw this film on the large screen in The Dryden Theatre at Rochester's George Eastman Museum. It will work on the small screen also.
This film has a very high IMDb rating of 7.8. It's that good.
The film stars Aida Mohammadkhani as Razieh, a seven-year-old girl who is determined to buy a beautiful goldfish for the New Year celebration. The movie moves forward as Razieh tries to get the money for the goldfish. Characters appear and disappear, new characters take their place, and things don't turn out quite as you expected them to turn out.
This is a wonderful movie, mostly because director Panahi was able to draw such a superb performance from Aida. (Two years later, she again starred in a movie by Panahi--The Mirror.)
We saw this film on the large screen in The Dryden Theatre at Rochester's George Eastman Museum. It will work on the small screen also.
This film has a very high IMDb rating of 7.8. It's that good.