The Wind Will Carry Us
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
1999 / 118min / DCP
Angling to film the funeral of a 100-year-old woman whose death is believed to be immediately imminent, a small film crew from Tehran pose as a group of treasure hunters to descend on their unwitting subject’s village in rural Iranian Kurdistan in Kiarostami’s lyrical, mystery-rich The Wind Will Carry Us, a film widely regarded as among its director’s greatest… which is to say, among the greatest of all films. “[An] ambiguous comic masterpiece… Offers an intricately constructed spatial world that’s as breathtakingly beautiful, and as cosmically evocative as a Breughel landscape—a world teeming with diverse kinds of life and activity.” —Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Distributor: Janus Films
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