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Kandahar
Directed by
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Not Rated
2001
85m
Drama
6.8
89%
75%
6.3
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After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan to try to find her.
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Cast of Kandahar
Nelofer Pazira
Nafas
Ike Ogut
Naghadar
Hassan Tantai
Tabib Sahid
Sadou Teymouri
Khak
Hoyatala Hakimi
Hayat
Noam Morgensztern
Three children (voice)
Monica Hankievich
Zahra Shafahi
Safdar Shodjai
Mollazaher Teymouri
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Director / Producer / Author
Abbas Sagharisaz
Producer
Hashem Gerami
Director Of Photography
Hossein Amiri
Director Of Photography
Ebrahim Ghafori
Director Of Photography
Kaveh Moinfar
Assistant Director
Mojtaba Mirtahasebi
Assistant Director
Mastane Mohajer
Editor
Mohammad Reza Darvishi
Music
Behroz Shahamat
Sound Designer
Kandahar Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Thanks to the shifting tone and manner of Kandahar, we wind up responding in many different ways at once, and if the overall effect is still scattered, the burden of making sense of it all-as art and as reality-reverts to us.
Newsweek
David Ansen
These lunar landscapes and grotesque visions are as strange and haunting as a science-fiction fantasy. Would that it were.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Jeff Strickler
It's a simple series of snapshots from a country in pain.
Arizona Republic
Richard Nilsen
Moves not like a story but a poem, and the images it presents to us are unforgettable.
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
Its themes are universal, its performances are effective in their simplicity and the direction is confident and unfussy.
Detroit News
Susan Stark
Intense, anecdotal and empowered by perversely beautiful imagery.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
Perhaps best appreciated as a record of what life was like before the U.S. invasion and as a lesson in why the rest of the world should have cared even before the terrorist attacks.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Today, after the liberation of Kandahar, what was originally conceived by Makhmalbaf as a panorama of images of life during wartime may now serve as its eloquent epitaph.
Houston Chronicle
Eric Harrison
The film is best appreciated as an open-ended 'fictional documentary' rather than a conventional feature with a beginning, middle and end.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Kandahar does not provide deeply drawn characters, memorable dialogue or an exciting climax. Its traffic is in images.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
A window on an Iran and an Afghanistan we should have taken account of long ago -- seen though a master's eye, felt through a poet's touch.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
[T]he film has so many riveting scenes.
Denver Post
Steven Rosen
Its story is more interesting for its own back story than for the difficult, problematic way Makhmalbaf has of trying to dramatize it.
Dallas Morning News
Jane Sumner
A plea for compassion for a people suffering from poverty, illiteracy, and religious zealotry.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Remarkably revealing and timely.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Although occasionally its narration is a bit halting and awkward, it's a lyrical, stunning picture of the ravages of war.
Boston Globe
Loren King
Its many moments of poetic grace make this haunting and harrowing journey a rewarding one.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
You won't forget this film -- it's devastating.
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