Palme d'Or winning-director Abbas Kiarostami's acclaimed film documents the arrival of an engineer and his colleagues from Tehran in a remote village in Iranian Kurdistan. Assumed by the locals - with whom they form an ambivalent relationship - to be archaeologists or telecom engineers the visitors' behaviour and keen interest in the health of an ailing old woman appear strange and their true motives are shrouded in mystery. Haunting and visually stunning The Wind Will Carry Us is an absorbing abstract meditation on life and death and the divisions between tradition... and modernity that stands among Kiarostami's best works. [show more]
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Four strangers arrive in the Iranian village of Siah Dareh from Tehran. Local boy Farzad acts as their guide, and becomes friendly with one of their number, Behzad, who repeatedly enquires after ailing local woman Mrs Malek. It is not clear why the men have come to the village, although they are seen walking round the old cemetary and try to give the inhabitants the idea that they are searching for treasure.
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