Reviews

La vie de Jésus (1997) – Film Review

Bruno Dumont portrays fantastically a group of five friends in northern rural France who are a bunch of imbeciles, while completely fooling us at the beginning of the film making us believe that we were in front of your typical group of innocent and trickster misfits that you come to love and care for and not in fact a group of guys that you end up to despising.

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Bad ma ra khahad bord (1999) – Film Review

Abbas Kiarostami gives us a beautiful look on rural life in Iran through the condescending eyes of a newly arrived man from the city, who brings a team to produce a journalistic/cinematic (not really clear) report on the mourning ceremonies in that isolated village.

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Être et avoir (2002) – Film Review

Observational documentary that takes a look at an entire academic year from a small rural one-class school where a single teacher takes care of their students, which are divided between the smallest, the middle ones and the oldest that would get into high-school in the upcoming years.

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