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Turtles Can Fly
Directed by
Bahman Ghobadi
PG-13
2004
1h 38m
Drama
,
War
8.0
87%
93%
7.7
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Near the Iraqi-Turkish border on the eve of an American invasion, refugee children, like 13-year-old Kak (Ebrahim), gauge and await their fate.
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Cast of Turtles Can Fly
Soran Ebrahim
Mr. Satellite (Soran)
Avaz Latif
Agrin
Saddam Hossein Feysal
Pashow
Hiresh Feysal Rahman
Hengov
Abdol Rahman Karim
Riga
Ajil Zibari
Shirkooh
Bahman Ghobadi
Director / Screenplay / Producer / Production Design
Babak Amini
Producer
Hamid Ghavami
Producer
Abbas Ghazali
Executive Producer
Batin Ghobadi
Producer
Shahriar Assadi
Director Of Photography
Jalal Saed Panah
Assistant Director
Shahram Shah Hosseini
Assistant Director
Mostafa Kherghehpoosh
Editor
Hayedeh Safiyari
Editor
Bahman Ardalan
Sound
Hossein Ali Zadeh
Original Music Composer
Sheyk Mohammad
Production Manager
Sadegh Sourchi
Production Manager
Turtles Can Fly Ratings & Reviews
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Despite its fanciful title, Turtles Can Fly leads viewers into a slough of despond, one in which not just hope is strangled but virtually any possibility for simple human kindness.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
An emotional triumph.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
relentless, bleakly funny, thoroughly remarkable drama
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
It's a soaring achievement, without ever leaving the ground.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
A story of wounded children, a devastating reminder of the costs of war.
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
Ebrahim's expressive eyes and mobile face capture the youth in the act of strategizing.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
I wish everyone who has an opinion on the war in Iraq could see Turtles Can Fly.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
As beautifully shot, by cinematographer Shahriar Assadi, as it is sensitively written and directed and wonderfully acted.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Melinda Ennis
Bahman Ghobadi's new drama about Iraq's children of war shows us the scenes lurking behind the headlines and sound bites.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Offers a sometimes lyrical, sometimes gut-turning portrait of war seen through the eyes of children.
Entertainment Weekly
If only it weren't such a patchy mess of a movie.
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
There's no refuge in this uncomfortably realistic movie, and that is its strength.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
It belongs on movie lovers' must-see list.
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
Its sophisticated world-view is a gentle rebuke to provincial views of the world in American cinema.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
Bahman Ghobadi's third film presents a harsh account of war, displacement and deprivation that is saved from utter bleakness by a tough, earthy lyricism.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
There are limits to this approach, both as a strategy of emotional exploitation and an instrument of political analysis. It is simply too easy to weep over maimed children.
Variety
Robert Koehler
Ghobadi in this pic displays a complete command of his art as he shifts between -- and even blends -- wrenching tragedy and amusing comedy.
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
The perpetual motion only temporarily staves off a pervading, self-evident despair.
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
Ghobadi casts his pint-sized protagonists as metaphors for the disenfranchised Kurdish minority that struggles to accept and deal with their imposed political alienation.
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