Expiration
While I sometimes found myself scratching my head a little, Heffernan provides just enough information to keep the intrigue at a maximum.
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While I sometimes found myself scratching my head a little, Heffernan provides just enough information to keep the intrigue at a maximum.
It’s crazy, I’ll give it that. There’s also a fair number of campy bits. But there’s also a lot of garbage mixed in.
On the surface the events themselves might seem trashy, but the film is anything but.
Listen close enough and you might just hear Ed Wood’s voice in the background clamoring with glee.
It’s the thought of telling the other side of the story, or at least the side that has been forgotten, that makes the subject matter so refreshing and enthralling.
Takes a single event that is compelling on its own and then takes it that much further by raising a question that’s easy to ask but not always easy to answer – why?
A quirky crowd-pleaser that builds off of the strength of strong characters to draw its audience in.
Makhmalbaf wants to reflect what’s happening in Afghanistan today. To that end this is a timely piece. Whether or not it remains as such as the years go by will only be known as history rolls itself out.
Poetry put to pictures.
A flawed film that despite having some curiosities ends up looking too smart for its own good.