Bashu, the Little Stranger | 
 enlarge | Director: Bahram Beizai
Actors: Adnan Afravian, Susan Taslimi, Parviz Pourhosseini
Studio: Panorama
Category: DVD
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 57479
Format: Import, Ntsc
Language: Turkish (Original Language)
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 4895033737544
ASIN: B0002JC6JM
Theatrical Release Date: 1991
Release Date: June 24, 2008
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Album Description
This touching, thought-provoking Iranian children's drama, from 1989 has a simple story, but complex undertones as it is simultaneously a quiet plea for peace and tolerance, an entertaining story and a sly, metaphorical criticism of Moslem fundamentalist thinking. It also presents a view of Iranian rural life seldom seen by Westerners. NTSC/Region 0. Original Iranian dialogue with optional English & Chinese subtitles. 117 minutes. Panorama. 2003.
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 peculiar and sweet August 27, 2008
Bashu is an odd and delightful little movie which, outwardly, seems very simple. A little boy (Bashu) escapes his war-ravaged village by hiding in the back of a truck that's travelling the countryside(his family all killed), and he ends up in a rural part of the country where the customs and language are totally different from his own. He eventually runs into a woman with two young children whose husband is away working for an extended period. The gem of this story is how they develop a relationship, and her peculiar and amazing personality in particular. The villagers eventually learn of Bashu and are very rejecting, for many reasons, and she strongly comes to his defense. The scenes with them definitely made me think of Fellini's way with odd personalities, and there were moments of mild magical realism through the story. While the screen quality is fairly scratchy, it's a wonderful movie and well worth watching.
 Interesting film deserves 4 stars, not 3. February 4, 2008
After a second viewing of this film, I came away with a better opinion. I would now give it 4 stars instead of 3. It is an interesting view of rural village life somewhere in Iran. The child Bashu escapes a war zone (Iran-Iraq war) in Iran after seeing his family killed by bombing. He stows away on a truck heading far away from his home, and finally disembarks in a very different place. He doesn't even know the language, although it is still in Iran. He is darker skinned than the locals, and they all react to that immediately. The villagers only cautiously accept him in their midst, some of their concerns resulting from simple superstition due to his different appearance. The village woman Naii saves our opinion of these seemingly heartless villagers by seeing Bashu simply as a lost, motherless child and obviously caring about him; she also has two children of her own. Naii and Bashu's difficulties in building trust and love are apparent and depicted in a straightforward way. It is a worthwhile journey, though, and became truly heart-felt by the end. I recommend this unusual film.
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