A school window has been broken and the culprit isn’t allowed back into class until he mends it. Determined to right his wrong, he carries a large pane of glass across the countryside in a gale. The wind blows, but will he crack?
In the hands of writer Abbas Kiarostami and director Mohammad-Ali Talebi, this simplest of stories becomes a heroic quest, poetic and epically beautiful. It has big-hearted humanism but Hitchcockian tension, too. An edge-of-the-seat masterpiece.
This screening will be accompanied by the short film 10 Minutes Older.
10 Minutes Older (U)
(Par desmit minutem vecaks)
Dir Herz Frank/LV 1978/10 mins/ silent
Herz Frank’s seminal short film has to be seen on the big screen. Storms of emotion sweep across a child’s face as he watches a puppet show that we never see.