The Gardener

Name: The Gardener
Genre: Drama, Documentary
Released: June 11, 2013
Duration: 87 min
Rating: 65

2013

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| Release Date: June 11, 2013 | Not Rated

Summary: The Gardener is a poetic film made using documentary-style techniques via the cameras of a father and son (the Makhmalbafs) who go to Israel to learn about the Baha’i faith which is taboo in the country of both the filmmakers’ and the faith’s birth – Iran.

Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Genre(s): Drama, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 87 min

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Manohla Dargis

Aug 8, 2013

An intimate, discursive inquiry into religious belief that opens to include questions about cinema. Read full review

Deborah Young

Jun 10, 2013

Images and metaphors whimsicially combine in a fine, fast-flowing documentary introducing the Baha'i faith. Read full review

Richard Kuipers

Jun 10, 2013

A stimulating and highly accessible cinematic conversation. Read full review

Aaron Cutler

Aug 6, 2013

The filmmaker once responsible for virtuoso, tragicomic social critiques like The Cyclist (1987) and Marriage of the Blessed (1989) now delicately works to see how beautiful the world can look when people embrace each other's differences. Read full review

Gary Goldstein

Jul 31, 2013

The elder Makhmalbaf, who wrote and directed, puts many spins on this ethereal mood piece — it is by turns poetic, impressionistic, metaphorical and even a bit trippy — without satisfying such genre basics as structure, depth and resolution. Read full review

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