if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Nothing more to say. Because saying more is spoiling the fantastic delicate texture of this piece of art, of poetry, that stays at the same level with the great poetic cinema of all time. Let's say, nevertheless( because IMDb doesn't allow comments with less than 10 lines), that the beauty of the movie is so great, so relaxing and enriching is visualizing all this gorgeous cinematography that it will make your day. Watch this if you are stressed out, if you have a skin rush, if you feel uneasy. This movie, along with Spring, summer...(Kim Ki Duk) is one of the few movies with therapeutic effect that I know. Iran is such a great country, such a great culture and past they have...A big Bravo!

hmmmmm... not too sure about this movie. I can't decide if I loved it or hated it!I watched the entire thing enthusiastically, which means it must not have been boring, although nothing much was happening! I guess I was expecting everything to fall into place at the end, but the ending was one of the most unexpected and uneventful of any movie I have ever seen. So immediately after the movie finished I felt quite let down, ripped off, and angry. I would have given the film a 0/10 at that point.But on reflection it was quite an artistic movie and it was a realistic glimpse into another world, that would be very difficult to experience in any other way. There was a sereneness and humanity about the film which I perhaps lost sight of while I was watching the movie, due to my expectations of a Hollywood style plot. So in this way the movie could have got a 10/10 from me.In the end I think I'll settle on giving it 5/10 and call it an experience rather than a movie!

Beautifully photographed, loaded with all sorts of little things which do much to contribute to the film's overall sense of everything big and small, and ever so slyly filled with humor, Kiarostami has created a great film here about people whom we see and don't see (We never see the "engineer's" crew, the man digging the deep ditch at the cemetery, the the supposedly dying old woman, the girl in the cave milking the cow for the engineer). I know this remote village is not Tehran but I see no false note in Kiarstami's depiction of his own people (He would certainly know better than any of us.) The film crew is from Tehran, and, as personified by the "engineer," neither of these two representatives of Iranian culture are remotely religious fanatics. They're folks like me and you. I'm aware the Mullahs control Iran, and strict adherence to Muslim law is their credo, but we don't feel it from the villagers or film crew. Perhaps, when a country feels the great weight of a mighty army roaming the lands of its next door neighbor, its leaders are forced to take extremist positions. When their leaders hear George W. Bush implying Iran might be next, they may believe a nuclear deterrent is all they have. Bush should watch this film and get some sense of, at least, what a sizable portion of Iran's population is like, and maybe he'll stop the tough talk, though I doubt it.

This one is about waiting, about being a stranger, about a waiting stranger. The gist of this movie is existentialist: the engineer is thrown into the village, he is alone (his somewhat sardonic colleagues are voices in his head, maybe they are only parts of his personality) and he is waiting for the death of an old villager. The stasis eventually dissolves when he leaves his role as observer and becomes involved, and we can move on, too. Like always the impressive Iranian scenery is worth it alone. Not much more to say, I am afraid, watch it if you are more interested in questions than in answers, if you can bear watching a movie which is not about actions but about waiting for action.