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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...
...victory turned on a single issue, it was the principled stand Khatami took in his confrontation with the hard-liners five years ago. As Culture Minister, he was widely appreciated for permitting relatively free circulation of books and films. But he was undone by his support for director Mohsen Makhmalbaf, whose films Nights of Zayandehrood and Time of Love dealt with taboo subjects like adultery and suicide--and hinted that tyranny did not end with the Shah's departure. Outraged conservative mullahs forced Khatami out and imposed a cultural crackdown that still continues...
...many intimate films from other countries. France, for example, makes beguiling little conversation pieces, like Ridicule and Comment je me suis dispute (ma vie sexuelle), a three-hour talkathon that plays like six consecutive episodes of a French Friends. Iran, of all places, is the hot new movie culture--Mohsen Makhmalbaf's Gabbeh registered as the festival's most folk-artful charmer--while the once estimable cinemas of Japan, Eastern Europe and Latin America have gone into hibernation...
...must bring Muslims together, so that they can strengthen each others' faith and advance the cause of Islam," said Mohsen Tehrani, a leader in the Boston-area Muslim community...
...Mohsen Rezai, 40. As commander of the Revolutionary Guards, the praetorian army of the regime, Rezai would play a key role if unrest broke out upon Khomeini's death. Even if the transition to a new government is peaceful, Rezai's military forces could make him a pivotal player...