Thursday, June 28, 2012

The Willow Tree

If you like foreign film you should try The Willow Tree, a lovely Iranian film about a blind man whose sight is restored.

I found it profound, quite frankly.

But foreign film REALLY has to be your thing if you are going to like this. There's no violence or "scenes"---about as rough as it gets is that a man throws some papers off his veranda (but he does it intensely!) . . . it's all about character development. So if no/low action and low/no humor and low/no fast-paced anything is your speed, and you can handle long scenery scenes and long episodes of a man's grieving face (which I fast forwarded through, I can only handle so much grieving face), try it.

If not. Pass. You will think this movie is weird.

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