Half Moon
Strand Releasing | Release Date: December 14, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
72
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Generally favorable reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0
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80
The New York TimesJeannette Catsoulis
Fateful and funny, haunting and magical. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesSheri Linden
An eloquent and audacious lament. Read full review
80
EmpireDavid Parkinson
An unflinching and affecting depiction of the region’s tragic lunacies. Read full review
75
New York PostV.A. Musetto
By terms moving and funny, the story reaches its apex when Half Moon, a beautiful young woman played by Golshifteh Farahani, makes her appearance from out of nowhere. Is she real, or perhaps an angel? You'll have fun trying to come up with an answer. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderAndrea Gronvall
The suspicion and contempt the band encounters along the way symbolize the Kurds' historical sufferings, but the movie has many comic moments courtesy of the eager bus driver, who keeps putting his foot in his mouth. The nonprofessional cast is highly persuasive under the sure hand of director Bahman Ghobadi (A Time for Drunken Horses). Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
Ghobadi always uses non-pro actors but you would never know. In fact, professionals wouldn't do theses roles justice since the recruited performers are partly playing themselves and partly playing people Ghobadi has known since he was a boy. Read full review
70
Village VoiceAaron Hillis
Writer-director Bahman Ghobadi's picturesque road trip is less about preserving a musical heritage than accepting one's fate, a mythic trek that's both heartrending and boisterous--often as hauntingly absurdist as a Kusturica carnival. Read full review
70
L.A. WeeklyScott Foundas
In a boom time for movies about the scars of the battlefield, Half Moon reminds that the unending strife and religious fundamentalism of the Middle East kills not just people but culture too. Read full review
70
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
This is a road movie unlike any other, the comical and mystical odyssey of old Mamo (an extraordinary performance by Ismail Ghaffari), a venerated musician who heads for Iraq from exile in Kurdish Iran with a busload of his musician sons to give a concert after Saddam's fall. Read full review
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