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...denied a visa to renowned Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami, forcing him to cancel a U.S. tour—which included a stop at Harvard—to debut his new film...
...Some directors take a journey into the exotic past, some into the perilous present. Two distinguished Iranian auteurs made films that tested their journalistic as well as dramatic instincts. Abbas Kiarostami, who won Cannes' highest prize in 1997 for The Taste of Cherry, was invited by the Uganda Women's Efforts to Save Orphans (uweso) to tour their aids-ravaged country for 10 days. The resulting documentary, A.B.C Africa, may not be what either the film maker or his hosts had in mind. Apparently realizing that the devastation was too great to make sense of, Kiarostami takes shot after shot...
...Afghani children in Kandahar, by Kiarostami's compatriot Mohsen Makhmalbaf, do not smile. One comely lad in a Taliban school loads a Kalashnikov rifle and obediently proclaims its virtues - it "kills the living and mutilates the dead" - as a mullah praises his recitation. ("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...
...trips of two Iranian directors tested their journalistic as well as dramatic instincts. Kiarostami, who won Cannes' highest prize in 1997 for The Taste of Cherry, was invited by the Uganda Women's Efforts to Save Orphans to tour their AIDS-ravaged country for 10 days. The resulting documentary, ABC Africa, may not be what either the filmmaker or his hosts had in mind. Apparently realizing that the devastation was too great to make sense of, Kiarostami takes shot after shot of bereft kids, most of them singing, nearly all of them smiling. Stick a camera in any child...
...Afghani children in Kandahar, by Kiarostami's compatriot Mohsen Makhmalbaf, do not smile. One comely lad in a Taliban school loads a Kalashnikov rifle and obediently proclaims its virtues?it "kills the living and mutilates the dead"?as a mullah praises his recitation. ("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...