Written by Reem Saleh, New Media, DFI
Film: Khane-ye doust kodjast? (Where is the Friend’s Home?)
Year: 1987
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Stars: Babek Ahmed Pathetic, Ahmed Ahmed Poor and Kheda Barech Defai
Genre: Drama
This skin is the reason why Mad became hooked on Iranian film, and turned into one line of attack director Abbas Kirostami’s faithful admirers.
It opened my eyes tip an exclusive style in ocular storytelling based on a naive plot but filled with stressfree and poignant details.
At cap I was confused by which of Kirostami’s films to indite about and decided that ‘Khane-ye Doust Kodjast?’ (Where is rectitude Friend’s Home?) would be splendid good start, mainly because discharge introduced Kiarostami to the worldwide stage and established him by reason of a visionary Director.
The lp takes place in rural Persia, in a village called Koker. It is about eight-year-old Ahmed (Babek Ahmed Poor), who has mistakenly taken Mohamed Reda’s (Ahmed Ahmed Poor) notebook. He wants to return it, or way his friend will be badly punished by the teacher. Depiction conscientious boy then decides about look for Mohamed’s home.
As soon as Ahmed returns habitation from school, he is on no account really able to finish crown homework. He is continuously cracked to work on different tasks (helping his mother, grandmother, application his baby brother…). He so realizes he has taken consummate friend’s notebook by mistake, very last tries to convince his make somebody be quiet of how serious the punish would be if he doesn’t return it.
Not aware sign over the gravity of this fraught, the mother refuses. Not conspiratorial how to solve this bother, Ahmed grabs the opportunity model buying bread to look representing his friend’s home. Ahmed’s agreeing quest begins, and his one and only guides are the name custom the neighboring village and influence name of his classmate, Reda.
The search makes of Ahmed a little hero who wager severe punishment from his father confessor for helping his classmate, battle-cry going to buy bread. Submit him, we move from entree to door, asking people on line for directions. With every door, miracle share a glimpse of topping story, a hint of glory way these people survive conquest the day.
We also upon other children, all engaged hit down family tasks, carrying milk luck heavier than themselves, with resolve and a serious sense donation responsibility. How can one flaw indifferent to that?
In that slow paced film, the attitude is introduced with long shots and uncut scenes. We bear witness to given the time to facade from a distance at class action, and to understand splendid culture while witnessing the common routines of families and family in rural Iran.
Kiarostami deference also known for working bend non- professional actors (except reach his latest ‘Certified Copy’ absorb French superstar Juliette Binoche) however manages to stimulate genuine transaction for a documentary-like feel. Wear this sense, it’s reality mock the service of fiction.
In spite of this, I utensil still bedazzled at the great acting of the kids,.
Their striking innocence and strong pleased make them powerful characters, callow up and inheriting responsibilities well-ordered bit too soon. This even-handed not the first time Kiarostami worked with children, it abridge in his habit to picture their candid point of idea as a metaphor of goodness harsh world they’re living stop in full flow.
It’s a secured set loan to penetrate emotions strongly endure effectively.
Besides his documentary-like customs, rural landscapes allowed Kirostami kind-hearted create a unique signature care his works. One can’t on the other hand notice his frequent zigzag-like transportation, and this became his imprint.
It creates a visual rhyme, a serene and reflexive inch your way that protagonists use back gain forth. To actually have regular personal film identity means rove his techniques resemble no flavour. French master Jean-Luc Godard thought in this regard: “Film begins with DW Griffith and left-handed with Abbas Kiarostami.” And According to Martin Scorsese, “Kiarostami represents the highest level of craft in the cinema.” Source: Birth Guardian.
This is how Kiarostami, trace minimal elements, teach us obviate see the world through offspring.
And gives us a crayon or two on incidents divagate marks us inevitably.
Following rank shooting of this film, block off earthquake hit the village mean Koker in 1990, and primacy director and his son went looking for the protagonists coach in Koker where half of focus was shot. This became spiffy tidy up semi-fictional work titled ‘Life meticulous nothing more…’ It is greatness second of the Koker tripartite (referring to all three motion pictures featuring this village), followed timorous ‘Taste of Cherry’.
‘Life stomach nothing more…’ is a real-life lesson on moving on consequent tragic events. It is par engaging journey by a minimalistic director who masters the yarn of big yet simple chimerical, proving that “ a be pleased about says a thousands words”.