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The Willow Tree
Directed by
Majid Majidi
PG
2007
1h 36m
Drama
7.3
87%
80%
6.8
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Youssef, a blind university professor, is suddenly diagnosed with a fatal disease and must undergo treatment in France. Back home, will he find the life he had before?
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Cast of The Willow Tree
Parviz Parastouei
Youssef
Roya Taymourian
Roya
Afarin Obeisi
Mother
Reza Naji
Morteza
Melika Eslafi
Mariam
Mahmoud Behraznia
Mahmood
Leila Otadi
Pari
Majid Majidi
Director
Nasser Hashemzadeh
Writer
Fouad Nahas
Writer
Seyyed Saeed Seyedzadeh
Executive Producer
Mahmoud Kalari
Director Of Photography
Ahmad Pezhman
Original Music Composer
The Willow Tree Ratings & Reviews
NewsBlaze
Prairie Miller
Perhaps Majidi intended wry commentary and observation of the dubious influences of Western culture on Iran, where outside scientific, technological and material advances impart a knowledge that is not necessarily likewise wisdom, enlightenment or virtue.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Teeters on the edge of overwrought melodrama but is saved by the convincing performance of Parvis Parastui.
Seattle Times
Jeff Shannon
This is powerful stuff.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Bill White
Iranian director Majid Majidi... takes his place alongside Robert Bresson as a master of sacred cinema. His Iran is a place of natural beauty so intense that even the sightless can experience its splendor.
Hollywood Report Card
Ross Anthony
Children of Heaven won me over with its slow gentle build and big sweet heart. I was expecting more of the same with Willow Tree. Unfortunately, I was disappointed.
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
Majidi infuses his simple yet eloquent tale with stunning imagery designed to make us relate to Youssef's reawakening.
Spirituality & Practice
Mary Ann Brussat
A spiritual masterpiece on gratitude, transformation and surrender to God by the gifted Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi. Rumi would love it!
Boxoffice Magazine
Shlomo Schwartzberg
Anchored by Parastui's luminous, heartfelt performance, [director] Majidi also revels in the joy of sight, especially as manifested in the beauty and lovely colors of nature. The Willow Tree is a powerful and ultimately optimistic movie.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
Explicitly religious, intensely poetic meditations, filled with recurrent symbols and suffused with a spirit of divine apprehension. [It is] sad beyond measure.
Film Journal International
Maria Garcia
The filmmaker compels us to see in the dark, to recognize beauty in the absence of color and light.
Newsday
John Anderson
A beautiful, strange film, deeply moving and no surprise from [director] Majidi.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
A beautiful film, both simple and profound, which suggests that bargaining with God is a bad idea in all cultural traditions.
Village Voice
Julia Wallace
A series of glistening tone poems.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
The film is dignified by Parvis Parastui's memorable performance, which partially offsets Majidi's symbolic heavywork.
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