| | Kandahar DVD (1 Customer Review)
| Category | Foreign Films DVDs, Foreign Film Movies, Dramas Videos, Recommended, True Story, Women, Journalists/Journalism, Desert, Taliban | | Starring | Niloufar Pazira, Hayatalah Hakimi, Hassan Tantai, Sadou Teymouri | | Director | Mohsen Makhmalbaf | | Composer | Mahamed Reza Darvishi | | Director of Photography | Ebraham Ghafouri | | Producer | Mohsen Makhmalbaf | | Screenwriter | Mohsen Makhmalbaf |
In this epic tale of hop and courage, Nafas, an Afghan-born Canadian journalist, returns to her homeland in a desperate attempt to reah her sister. Overcome with grief after being injured by a landmine and her despair over the Taliban's systemic oppression of women, she has vowed to commit suicide at the time of the next solar eclipse, only three days away. This film won the Eucenical Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival of 2001. Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf presents this partially fictionalized documentary that illustrates the suffering of Afghan women under the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in the year 2000. The quiet, stark, powerful film follows an Afghan native, Nafas (the stunningly beautiful Noulifar Pazira), who left Afghanistan years back and got a journalism degree in Canada, upon which she built a career reporting the plight of women in oppressive nations. When she receives a letter from her sister, who is still in Afghanistan and who has decided that she will kill herself on the night of the next eclipse, Nafas decides to sneak back inside the border to rescue her. Traveling in a Red Cross helicopter to Pakistan, where she is lead on a treacherous all-night trek across an icy river and over deadly mountains, Nafas finally crosses over the border. But from there she must get to Kandahar, with only three days left before the eclipse. As a woman in Afghanistan she cannot speak out loud, travel without a husband, or show her face, elements which make her journey nearly impossible. Disguised in a heavy head-to-toe burka (the mandatory dress for women), she begins a Kafkaesque journey across the barren land, encountering obstacles both threatening and mesmerizing along the way. IN THEATRES: DECEMBER 14, 2001 (NY/LA) Kandahar Reviews: "...One of the most visually stunning movies since Martin Scorsese's KUNDUN..."
-- Mike Clark, USA Today "...The director displays talent by providing notes of absurdity and unforgettable visuals....His compensatory touches have a jaw-dropping power..."-- Elvis Mitchell, New York Times "...[Makhmalbaf's] artful deployment of colour, imagery and irony frequently gives a strange otherworldliness to what, in other hands, would be straight reportage..."
-- Sheila Whitaker, Sight and Sound "..A powerful depiction of oppression and hardship under Taliban rule….KANDAHAR is a film of passion and immediacy…"
-- Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
This is the only Niloufar Pazira video. Stars also making their debut in this video: Hayatalah Hakimi, Hassan Tantai, Sadou Teymouri. Kandahar | List Price | $29.96 (You save $4.77) | | Studio | New Yorker Video | | Orig Year | 2001 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank | 33459  | | CD Universe Part number | 5603736 | | Catalog number | 85303D | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Feb 01, 2007 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Also Known As | Kandehar | | Running Time | 85 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen | | Movie Details | Color; Letter Boxed; Widescreen |
Kandahar DVD Region 1 Keep Case Single Side - Dual Layer Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85 Letterbox - 1.85 Additional Release Material: Featurette: LIFTING THE VEIL Audio Commentary: Nelofir Pazira - Star Trailers: 1. International Trailer 2. Original U.S. Trailer Interactive Features: Scene Access Text/Photo Galleries: Stills/Photos Biographies: 1. Mohsen Makhmalbaf - Director 2. Select Cast
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