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Thursday, Sep 6, 2018
7 PM (78 mins)
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A Moment of Innocence
(Nun-o-goldun)
(Nun va goldun), (The Bread and the Vase)
Imported 35mm Print
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Introduction
Hossein Khosrowjah is a senior adjunct professor at California College of the Arts in the Visual Studies Department. His book, The Singular Cinema of Abbas Kiarostami, will be published later this year.
featuringA fascinating humanist experiment and investigation . . . full of warmth and humor as well as mystery.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Mirhadi Tayebi, Ali Bakhshi, Ammar Tafti,
A chance meeting with the policeman Makhmalbaf stabbed when he was a young anti-Shah militant forms the basis for this revelatory metanarrative on cinema, mythmaking, and how we remember and retell our own stories. Seeing him again during a film audition years after the incident (the policeman, of course, wants to be an actor), Makhmalbaf approaches his former foe with an intriguing idea: to revisit their encounter as a film. Their memories, however, differ: Makhmalbaf recalls a political act, the policeman a thwarted romance with Makhmalbaf’s female colleague. Showcasing how our own memories are more idealized than fully realized, this self-reflective masterpiece is “delicate, funny, and touching by turns” (Variety).
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Cinematographer
- Mahmoud Kalari
Language
- Farsi
- with English subtitles
Print Info
- Color
- 35mm
- 78 mins
Source
- Makhmalbaf Film House
CINEFILES
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A moment of silence (distributor materials), New Yorker Films, 2001
Stating his independence through strong storytelling (review), Los Angeles Times, Kevin Thomas, 2000
Critic's choice: A moment of innocence (review), Reader (Chicago, Ill.), Jonathan Rosenbaum, 2000
A moment of innocence (distributor materials), New Yorker Films, 2000
A moment of innocence - Nun va goldun (program note), San Francisco International Film Festival, 1997
A moment of innocence (program note), Singapore International Film Festival, 1997
A moment of innocence (program note), Cinematheque Ontario/a division of Toronto International Film Festival Group, 1997
A moment of innocence (program note), Toronto International Film Festival, Dimitri Eipides, 1996
Locarno: A moment of innocence (Nun va goldun) (review), Variety, Derek Elley, 1996
Un instant d'innocence (distributor materials), MK2 Productions
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