Losing His Soul, Then Finding It Again, After a Season in Hell
di Stephen Holden The New York Times
The first and last images in “The Song of Sparrows,” the Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi’s dogmatic spiritual fable, show a single ostrich, which as the tale unfolds becomes a symbol of the majesty and mystery of the natural world.
Over the course of the story Karim (Reza Naji), an impoverished farmer who lives in a rural village with his wife, Narges (Maryam Akbari), and three children, loses his soul, only to regain it after a season in hell during which he succumbs to the temptations of the material world. [...]
di Stephen Holden, articolo completo (4029 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 3 April 2009