The Wind Will Carry Us
drama
141
Stimulating
Consistently challenges the viewer and rewards attention
Score Breakdown
Cognitive Stimulation/50
36
Educational Value/50
28
Craft & Quality/50
44
IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4)
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The TVI Take
A television crew waits in a Kurdish village for an old woman to die so they can film a mourning ritual. Abbas Kiarostami's film is formally exceptional — the long takes and the gap between what we see and what the characters talk about are both precisely deployed.
Educational about Kurdish village culture in Iran.
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