Just perfect...

hyped garbage

Excellent but underrated film

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Boring, I can take. Revolting I can take. But boring and revolting i can't. In the name of cultural diversity, some would make us believe that all cultures are equally respectable, that one must not judge other cultures with one's preconceptions and biases. Sorry but I cannot accept that. This culture (???) is the shame of humanity.

An argument can be made for four stars based on a few minor weaknesses in the acting, script, location, directing but the uniqueness of this story overrides being that overly punctilious.We see the world through the forbidden thoughts and eyes of a young attractive female; as a wife and as a Muslim as she faces the challenge of surviving alone and yet caring for a comatose husband and two young daughters, within a war ravaged side street in Kabul, Afghanistan. The period is shortly after the Soviet incursion into that country but just as poignant today. She is constantly threatened by her loneness, her poverty and by armed militants imposing their wills upon this street's inhabitant.Another movie concerning the travails of girls and women in he Muslim world is the enjoyable and succinct "Wadjda". We should all support those organizations that try to give girls & women a chance at education in Afghanistan, Pakistan as well as other countries.

Became an instant favorite. It does not matter what country this takes place in, and that it's never named. Often the enemy is easily indistinct.Those little girls were precious, running in the street, in the cellar wile bombs are going off. Been there. Been around men like that too.Loved the colors of Golshifteh Farahani's clothes, and the way they billowed magnificently about her. One of the most beautiful women I have ever seen. Her spirit shines through.The sex, better said as rape, is more spoken and little shown.There is one frame of Eros though, love making, you'd see in a Fine Arts Museum.The issue of child brides is a theme, and these girls are given away like chattel. They do not choose this.Those who do not know how to make love, make war, and that is not just the kind with guns. 10/10

The Patience Stone is based on an old Persian fable about a stone to whom one can confide all one's problems and worries. Here though the stone is an Afghan man, reduced to a vegetable state by the war. His wife (Golshifteh Farahani) uses his inability to comprehend and talk back to tell him things that she would not dare to say otherwise. With his disability she's been left to feed herself, her two children and continue buying medicine to keep her husband alive. The only job available for an Afghan woman in her desperate situation it seems is prostitution.Atiq Rahimi has directed from his own novel. He wrote the script with the renowned veteran screen writer Jean-Claude Carrierre. It is, I feel, a story best suited to theatre with its long monologues. The film however, belongs to and is carried by Golshifteh Farahani's magnificent performance. This is a very tough role where she has to, for most part, talk to a body lying motionless and unresponsive on the ground, unable to engage in any dialogue. A poetic film which is not for all tastes but which will richly reward those who appreciate its form and messages.