Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Weekend Prom Houses Hamptons

The Green Wave

Germany 2010 Director: Ali Samadi Ahadi with Pegah Ferydoni, Navid Akhavan 82 min

Rarely was a film released in perfect time: a few days after the Berlinale success of the Iranian film "Nader And Simin A separation "by Asghar Farhadi documented" The Green Wave "harrowing and artistically successful, the Green Revolution of Iran, the mother of all the riots, the fall now in North Africa and Arab Emirates unrest.

"The Green Wave" can again chronologically the events before and after the presidential election of 12 June 2009 run. In the authentic comments from people who were with the Green Revolution, it lives again to all the passion and hope, large parts of the Iranian people moving. But in the original recordings of brutally beaten protests dies and the dream of a freer society. To anonymous comments from nurses and torture victims and show their terrible experiences, "added director and writer Ali Samadi Ahadi elaborate animations (the artist Ali Reza Darvish on). A process that, even in "Waltz With Bashir" alienating and reinforcing worked.

How Bahman Ghobadi "Persian cat" and Hana Makhmalbaf "Green Days" and "The Green Wave" is a very touching film to the dream of another Iran. The originating from Iran and 12 since the age was living in Germany, director Ali Samadi Ahadi before with the comedy " salami Aleikum" (2008) and the documentary "Lost Children - Lost children." (2005) made a very positive attention to themselves

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