Djomeh
New Yorker Films | Release Date: September 5, 2001 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
76
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Christian Science MonitorDavid 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
90
Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
Enriches a deceptively anecdotal plot with a combination of observational camerawork, strong narrative rhythms, and deft characterization. Read full review
80
Chicago ReaderRonnie 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
80
The New York TimesDana Stevens
An investigation, at once lucid and enigmatic, of exile, loneliness and the fragile possibility of friendship. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneMichael 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
75
New York Daily NewsElizabeth 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
60
TV Guide MagazineKen 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
50
New York PostJonathan Foreman
Agonizingly slow-moving and talky, it consists primarily of conversations between two men in a truck. Read full review
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