#1261: KIAROSTAMI, Abbas: The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)

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KIAROSTAMI, Abbas (Iran)
The Wind Will Carry Us [1999]
Spine #1261
Blu-ray


The mysteries of everyday life come into astonishing focus in one of Abbas Kiarostami’s greatest cinematic achievements. A slyly self-reflexive commentary on the director’s own artistic practice, The Wind Will Carry Us unfolds with unhurried majesty as it follows an undercover documentarian (Behzad Dorani) whose assignment to cover a small village’s funeral rites is continually frustrated by an elderly woman’s refusal to die. Along the way, though, he forges surprising, unsettling, and enlightening connections with those he meets. Suffused with Kiarostami’s love for people, poetry, and the arid beauty of rural Iran, this meditative masterpiece reflects upon the boundaries between intimacy and alienation, tradition and modernity, with the utmost grace.

118 minutes
Monaural
Color
in Persian
1:85:1
Criterion Release 2025

Directors/Writer

Abbas Kiarostami was 59 when he directed The Wind Will Carry Us.

Other Kiarostami films in the Collection:

#992: Through The Olive Trees (1994)
The Film

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Film Rating (0-60):

60

The Extras

The Booklet

Commentary

Video tribute

Documentary 1

Documentary 2

Documentary 3

Controversial altered ending

Theatrical trailer

Extras Rating (0-40):

39

60 + 39 =

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