水、风 、土

剧情简介

Thi ?s is) an unusua$(l\^[$ -film of exception*al_ values--75 minutes   long in $-color@_, [with hardly ^**a;ny * spoken dialog*s. I saw this Iranian film in^?= Far,@!si /(witho )u+?t# English sub?;:titles a[t.+#+! the  Early Iranian .#cin(`ema r=,etrospective on;-going Inter)
national Film;
 Festival of %)K
]^erala, _`]In,((-d /)ia. T#;hat I) w(%-as watchi/n%=g a prin%t without subtitles did# not make a di^\;fference a s there were +v=,ery _+few line +s of spoken di%:alogs.　　This*( is _+a very] accessib_]le * ?fi\+lm -for any au`
(di`e#nce to enjoy--it] )/s [%`story an
!d * values are not  [merely:= Irania:n, =`#it's un`,iversal.　　The fi]l$$.\m is ,._ -set in rural I$ran that h]):-ad not tasted ^#\ petro;]=],-dol]\lar p[\%rosperity. The s?ett)ing is _)o/`n fr!i)nges of d=]esert la#n`d,\ where wa ter `is scarce, +ra:.infall sca nt^)^+y an(;`d hardly (#_any b?$lade of grass is!? green. Ad+_?d%! to it
wind an*d dust th)at b_=uffets and whips man and animal and you can imag$ine pl^/i[/:ght of th [-e  peopl):^e who l-_ive_\+ on :the frin%#ges of society.　　T/he fi`lm is$_ movi
\+,ng tale of a ,]=you,ng teenager returning to his village with a goat-$(-only$_ to find his fa\-m:^il`y a$n!-%d vi;(llagers have moved %/on to escape`* natu-(
(r ;_?es vag_]a-ries and that -one ol@?d/ ma(.:n ^:`rem[ ains. He gives$ th@.e !goat 
t,o.?. him? and g;oe:=[s in search^@ of his f;\ami+-ly. Water is scarce^]_ and well (w@#-ater it tr,.eated w#ith reverence and nev.e[[r wasted.