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Kiarostami contemplates the power adhering to class, gender, age, and education; and reflects ironically on his own relationship to the poor people he films in this gorgeous, complex film.
A media engineer from Tehran (Behzad Dorani) arrives in a remote mountain village in Iranian Kurdistan, where he and his three-person camera crew secretly wait for a century-old woman to die so they can film or tape an exotic mourning ritual at her funeral. To do this he has to miss a family funeral of his own, and every time his mobile phone rings the poor reception forces him to drive to a cemetery atop a mountain, where he sometimes converses with a man digging a deep hole for an ... view more »
ADMISSION INFO
$10 / $8 seniors & non-Harvard students / Harvard students free
Phone: 6174963211
Email: bgravely@fas.harvard.edu
Website: https://harvardfilmarchive.org/calendar/the-wind-will-carry-us-2023-05
LOCATION
Harvard Film Archive Cinematheque, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
PARKING INFO
Although parking in Cambridge is difficult (most of the surrounding streets have restricted parking for Cambridge residents only), metered parking on Broadway and Harvard Streets, as well as the rest of Harvard Square, is free after 8pm. Film-goers are encouraged to use public transportation, particularly the MBTA Red Line.