Where Is the Friend's Home? (Khane-ye doust kodjast?) (1987)

8.7	Listal rating
7.9	IMDB rating

1980s (3), 1987 (2), Iranian (2), Friendship (1), School (1), Cult (1), Iran (1), Notebook (1)

Description

Directed by

Abbas Kiarostami

Starring (View all) :

Babek Ahmed Poor

Ahmed

Ahmed Ahmed Poor

Mohamed Reda Nematzadeh

Teacher

Mother

Father

Perzian Neighbour

Ali, a neighbour

Grandfather's Friend

Waiter

Property Owner

Written by (View all) :

Abbas Kiarostami

writer

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Ratings of Where Is the Friend's Home?

8.7/10
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samira

Ahmed's relentless pursuit

Posted : 1 year, 8 months ago at Mar 26 9:13

Well, after many reviews posted here, I just realized I never posted any Iranian films, being so, today I'll post a review of my favorite film of my favorite Iranian director. At one point in Amadeus, Mozart shocks Emperor Joseph II with a claim that he can sustain a simple opera scene for 20 minutes. As amazing as that is, Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami outdoes Mozart more than four times over, maintaining interest in a single conceit with increasing intensity for eighty-three minutes in Where is the Friend's Home? (Khane-ye doust kodjast?). That he does so with untrained actors in an essentially barren landscape proves Kiarostami possesses amazing lyrical mastery on film. Opening with a long close-up of a plain bluish iron door with chattering eight-year-old children behind wh...Read more

Rating : 10/10

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