New Yorker Films | Release Date: July 28, 2000 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
87
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 19 Critic Reviews
Positive:
18
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0
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63
Poetic but tedious and all but plotless.
100
Kiarostami's genius is elusive. His films may be unknowable, but they are undeniably hypnotic, charismatic.
80
"Nothing happening" is everything happening between the lines, in the gap created between what is unstated onscreen and what we bring to the story ourselves.
100
A film poem of sometimes humbling beauty: a movie that opens up a new world to us - in the mountains of Iranian Kurdistan - with an enchanting freshness and austerity of vision.
90
Film.comDavid D'Arcy
Will test your powers of attention. The effort is worth every minute.
88
If you've had enough of the loony tunes coming from Florida, this piece of absurdist serio-comedy is the perfect picture.
88
A brilliant if slow-paced movie about one man's unwitting journey into adulthood.
90
The rhythm of rural life has rarely seemed so lucid and luminous.
70
The impact of its finish has been dissipated by too much meandering along the way.
88
It's a meditation on life and death, but it's less somber and more light-handed, subtle, and mischievously funny.
93
The best film we'll see this year.