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DVD ~ Agheleh Rezaie
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  • Actors: Agheleh Rezaie, Abdolgani Yousefrazi, Razi Mohebi, Marzieh Amiri
  • Directors: Samira Makhmalbaf
  • Format: PAL, Widescreen
  • Language Farsi
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: Artificial Eye
  • DVD Release Date: 23 Aug 2004
  • Run Time: 102 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0002LU9AI
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 16,007 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Made in Afghanistan, after the fall of the Taliban regime, Samira Makhmalbaf's film is set in the ruined city of Kabul. Noqreh is a young woman who chooses to attend a secular school for girls, rather than a traditionally religious one, and becomes inspired to become Afghanistan's first female President. But in the war-ravaged, devastated country her dreams are far from easy to achieve.

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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Masterful, 1 Oct 2004
By Stephen Newton "www.stephennewton.com" (Manchester, England) - See all my reviews
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It's hard to dispute that Iranian filmmakers - most importantly the Makhmalbaf family - are leading the way with realist cinema. In Blackboards, Samira followed a group of Kurdish teachers made refugees by the chemical bombing of Halabcheh as they stumbled around the mountainous Iran/Iraq border trying to sell English lessons to a population whose children are mostly smugglers' mules. Here she builds on her father's work, Kandahar, which first visited post-war Afghanistan with a story of woman's return from Canadian exile to save her suicidal sister.

In At Five in the Afternoon, Makhmalbaf's Afghanistan could not be more foreign or more bleak, yet her sympathetic portrayals - especially of men who pray at the sight of a woman's face - ensure there's no judgement. Instead, Nogreh's going against her father to become an educated woman plays out naturally, like teen rebellion.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Elegant and beautiful: Iranian cinema at its best!, 24 Oct 2007
Just a beautiful slab of Iranian cinema.

Nogreh, a young women in post-Taliban Afghanistan battles against harsh living conditions and the intolerance of her father to gain an education and a future for herself. She even dreams of being the first woman president one day. Samira Makhmalbaf's third film is her best: at once neo-realist and allegorical, making the most of the harsh and beautiful landscape to present a 'borderless' vision of the victory of hope over despair.
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An Afghan tragedy, 11 Jun 2007
By P. C. Reynell (Bradford UK) - See all my reviews
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This is one of the remarkable series of films which have made Iranian cinema the best in the world. After the fall of the Taliban Nogreh participates in the new female education movement full of hope and even aspiring to the presidency of Afghanistan. But male chauvinism, the massive influx of refugees from Pakistan and, above all, sheer grinding poverty reduce her dreams to ashes. Pathetically her symbols of emancipation, a pair of high-heeled shoes and a parasol, are abandoned. The pace is slow by Western standards, but some of the shots are composed with the care and skill of an Eisenstein.
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