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Bid-o Bad (1999)
A strangely compelling film (even for westerners like myself) about a child's odyssey to maintain his status in the local school
30 May 2019 - 2 out of 2 users found this review helpful.
The film was written by Iranian master auteur Abbas Kiarostami, and in many ways is a companion piece to Kiarostrami's "Where is the Friend's House". Both stories center around a young boy on a dangerous quest, and failure will potentially produce physical/social/emotional scars. While the film unfolds slowly, as the protagonist risks life and limb to satisfy the school's demands, and in the course of it has to travel a great distance, almost exclusively on foot, a patient viewer will be richly rewarded.
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