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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9780767857086
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0767857089
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 19, 2000
Running Time: 90 minutes
Sales Rank: 16989
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
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Product Description:
A fable of childs innocence and a complex look at faith and humanity. Visually magnificient and wrenchingly moving the film tells the story of a boy whose inability to see the world only enhances his ability to feel its powerful forces. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 06/24/2008 Starring: Moshen Ramezani Run time: 90 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Majid Majidi
Amazon.com:
Majid Majidi, whose delightful Children of Heaven became the first Iranian film ever nominated for an Oscar, returns to the subject of children for this lush and lovely--if contrived--melodrama. A spirited blind boy with a passion for learning and life arrives home for a three-month break. He's loved by his giggly little sisters and adored by his gentle granny, but his widowed, self-pitying father sees him as a burden and is determined to foist him off on someone else before he remarries--specifically, a kindly blind carpenter who welcomes the boy with all his heart. Majidi is at his best exploring the texture of the boy's world--little hands feeling their way through a garden, the sounds of metal pencils punching out Braille pages, the shuffle of fingers on paper--and his imagery is delicate and lush. The story descends into scripted tragedy and a contrived, action-packed climax (unusual for a cinema known for its restraint), and the emotional tenor turns sentimental and cloying, but Majidi turns it all around with an astounding, heartbreakingly powerful final image. If there is one thing many Iranian films have in common, it's an unerring sense of how to end a film. This is one of the most affecting ever: beautiful, moving, simple, a glowing moment that crystallizes the entire movie. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Simply, Superb !
This is a masterpiece that touches our hearts. No more words. Don't miss it and enjoy it as I did !!
Rating: - Beautiful...
The scene in which Mohammed hears the baby bird that has fallen from its nest, outside the school while waiting for his father, could be a film all on its own... A great spiritual message of awareness...
Let us all be like Mohammed, and embrace the beauty of life around us and not allow the pressures of society and circumstance blind us like his fearful and misguided father...
Rating:  - Great Movie
I don't usually watch movies like this, but it was fantastic. The cinematography was great and the message was sweet. Surprisingly, there were some intense moments. Great movie all together.
Rating: - Touching & Powerful
This is one of the best Iranian films ever made. The praise it has received on this page is well deserved and this is a "must see" for all who want to get a taste of Iranian filmaking.
Rating: - Beyond Seeing
This film about a blind Iranian boy and his family takes the viewer beyond all stereotypes to witness the etheric beauty and depth of love in unexpected places. The filmmaker has produced a work which speaks successfully across cultural boundaries in a provoking exploration of the meaning of family, community, loss and connection.
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