A Time for Drunken Horses

Name: A Time for Drunken Horses
Genre: Drama, War
Released: October 27, 2000
Duration: 80 min
Rating: 78

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Shooting Gallery | Release Date: October 27, 2000

Summary: When the youngest boy of a destitute Iranian Kurdish family suffers from a terminal illness, his young siblings struggle to pay for a life-saving operation. (Shooting Gallery)

Director: Bahman Ghobadi

Genre(s): Drama, War

Runtime: 80 min

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Jay Carr

Deeper and richer in humanity than all but a handful of the American films released this year. Read full review

Kim Morgan

A profoundly anxious picture that from its first frame holds you, clenched, never able to let go, even after its unresolved coda. Read full review

Dallas Observer Bill Gallo

It's difficult to imagine a more eloquent tribute. Read full review

Carrie Rickey

A disturbing and forceful drama. Read full review

Chris Kaltenbach

The real hero here is Ghobadi, whose love and respect for the culture in which he was raised shines through every frame. Read full review

Dana Stevens

Because of its relentlessness, its crawling pace (the 77 minutes pass like 2 1/2 hours) and its sometimes confusing story, A Time for Drunken Horses may not be for every taste, but it's still an affecting, and in its way beautiful, movie. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

In Bahman Ghobadi's heart-tugger about Kurdish orphans, those wide eyes are too often used as a manipulative device. Read full review

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sachineldho

Feb 4, 2021

Loved everything in this movie. It's very depressing because the story is so real. Keep some tissue paper ready, you might wanna cry.

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Negzel

Jun 23, 2015

Bahman Ghobadi is no doubt one of the best young directors of the Iranian Cinema. In this movie, he tries to tell a very heartbreaking story about children who tries to survive without their father&mother just in the Iran-Iraq border. A very sad story, yet must see.

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