Djomeh

Name: Djomeh
Released: September 5, 2001
Duration: 94 min
Rating: 76
Cast: Jalil Nazari, Rashid Akbari

2001

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Movie Details & Credits

New Yorker Films | Release Date: September 5, 2001

Starring: Jalil Nazari, Rashid Akbari

Summary: Djomeh, a shy young Afghani working in a remote rural dairy farm in Iran, falls in love with a beautiful local girl. (New Yorker Films)

Director: Hassan Yektapanah

Runtime: 94 min

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David Sterritt

The performances of this quiet Iranian drama are utterly genuine, and the story is a delicate blend of slice-of-life realism and soft-spoken social commentary. Read full review

J. Hoberman

Enriches a deceptively anecdotal plot with a combination of observational camerawork, strong narrative rhythms, and deft characterization. Read full review

Ronnie Scheib

Hassan Yektapanah's first film attests to the deceptive simplicity of Iranian cinema, transforming the most minimal of props, scenes, and stories into a complex journey of discovery. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

Yektapanah's stripped-down methods --remote setting, a cast of locals, the sparest of scripts -- are used so effectively, it quickly becomes clear that he's most concerned with the similarities rather than the differences between people. Read full review

Michael Wilmington

May strike some audiences as even more real than Kiarostami's work, because the story is so luminously open. Watching it, we enter, without barriers, a world. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

This gentle and somewhat slow moving romantic fable has a quiet sweetness all its own, and is thankfully free of the inscrutable ponderousness that often infuses the films of Yektapanah's mentors. Read full review

Jonathan Foreman

Agonizingly slow-moving and talky, it consists primarily of conversations between two men in a truck. Read full review

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50	#50 Best Movie of 2001

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