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...Makhmalbaf showed in Gabbeh, he is Iran's great colorist; here the grand vistas, the gorgeous hues of the women's burkas (which hide all but their eyes), offer poignant counterpoint to the Taliban's ravaging of a beautiful land. We know of their desecration of ancient Buddhas; now we see how they ravage their people. One way is through land mines that pock the desert; some are concealed in dolls that lure children to pick them up and lose a hand. At a Red Cross outpost, artificial legs rain from the sky in parachutes dropped from a plane...
...Weapons," a visiting doctor says later, "are the only modern thing in Afghanistan.") Another boy, an orphan in the desert, will peddle anything, including himself, to keep going. He attaches himself to an educated Iranian woman who has returned from Canada to save her sister. As Makhmalbaf showed in Gabbeh, he is Iran's great colorist; here the grand vistas, the gorgeous hues of the women's burkas (which hide all but their eyes) offer poignant counterpoint to the Taliban's ravaging of a beautiful land. We know of their desecration of ancient Buddhas; now we see how they ravage...
...Wave of the mid-'60s has a country made such a lovely noise at the big festivals and in Western capitals where the term foreign film doesn't evoke a yawn. Directors Abbas Kiarostami (A Taste of Cherry), Jafar Panahi (The White Balloon) and Samira's father Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Gabbeh) are as revered in the world film community as they are anonymous at American 'plexes...
...Gabbeh Tough heroes, winsome kids, things that blow up in the night--can there be another way to make movies? Yes, in this lyrical fable of a woman who literally lives in the weave of a carpet while she awaits her lost love. Iran's Mohsen Makhmalbaf is a weaver too, of sweet dreams, vivid colors and magical filmmaking...
Perhaps a semidocumentary about the nomadic Ghashghai goatherds and carpetmakers of southeastern Iran is not your idea of a fun night at the 'plex. Yet Mohsen Makhmalbaf's Gabbeh is a visual wonder, folkloric and folk-lyrical. Color has rarely been used so sumptuously as in this fable of Gabbeh (Shaghayegh Djodat), a beautiful young woman whose marriage to a dashing horseman her father keeps postponing. Gabbeh means carpet, and the young woman is a kind of textile goddess weaving a spell over the proceedings. She must watch the painful birth of a calf, the playful bickering...