'The song of sparrows'

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Majid Majidi - IRAN - 2008 - fiction - color - '96 - OV - STT BIL

Iranian film that made a splash at the 2008 Berlin Festival. Karim, a good husband and father, gets fired from his job on an ostrich farm. Almost by accident, he starts working as a motorcycle taxi driver in the big city, but urban turpitudes threaten to spoil this countryman’s basic honesty. A metaphor about moral decline and redemption, the story opposes materialism and spirituality, as do all the films by Majid Majidi (who directed Baran, among others).

'Avaze gonjeshk-ha'

With: Mohammad Amir Naji, Hossein Aghazi

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'Love streams'

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John Cassavetes - USA - 1984 - fiction - color - 141' - OV

John Cassavetes’s 1984 last independent film focuses on a brother and sister, Robert and Jane, played by Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands (his wife and muse), who are tremulously attached to each other. She’s about to get a divorce and lose her daughter, he’s a compulsive womaniser. But they’ve reached the point where her excessive passion intensifies and his feelings are cooling off. Played with heart-breaking sensitivity by a director determined to pierce the mysteries of both bodies and souls.

With: John Cassavettes, Gena Rowlands, Seymour Cassel

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'12 angry men'

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Sidney Lumet - USA - 1957 - fiction - black & white - 96' - OV

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