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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Majid Majidi |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 22 January, 1999 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Miramax |
| MPAA RATING: | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Subtitled, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Foreign, Foreign Film - Other, Foreign Film [Dub Or Subtitle], International, Movie |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 786936190908 |
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Customer Reviews of The Children of Heaven
Warm, sweet, and honest Finding a film that achieves warmth, sweetness, tenderness, and child-like wonder while eschewing nostalgia, cuteness, and other heart-tugging manipulations is a rare treat. I can't think of a movie that walks this thin line better than The Children of Heaven. Losing a pair of shoes is the parti for a gentle and humorous adventure in which siblings act out of uncomplicated love for each other. Seeing them running through the streets of Tehran I felt privvy to a view of children that I might get if I were invisible, so spontaneous is their acting. I'm left supposing that director Majidi set the scenes and waited patiently for the kids to just PLAY. The pacing is natural and unhurried, the storyline is believable but tinted with a slight forgivable haze of allegory, and all is suffused with a heavenly sense of the lightness of being a child. Moments of adult anxiety enter here and there, and are central to the broad view of the plot, but mostly the movie is a series of intimate vignettes that culminate in a surprisingly tense footrace. <
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Lost : One pair of shoes . . .
This is another deeply affecting story about simple people by Iranian director Magid Magidi. The central character is a schoolboy, Ali, from a poor Tehran family who loses the shoes of his younger sister, and loans his own sneakers to her so that she can go to her school in the mornings, swapping with him as he races off to his own school in the afternoons. This simple premise offers a window into the lives of people who must scrape to get by, the mother recovering from an illness and the father working odd jobs. Meanwhile, the landlord wants five months' back rent and the grocer is refusing to extend credit.
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>The situation may seem stereotypical on the surface - and a guaranteed tearjerker - but Magidi wrings such plausible performances from his cast that it's easy to be swept up in the immediacy of the problems facing them, and we watch as the problem of the lost shoes becomes a weight on the shoulders of the young Ali that is nearly impossible to bear. An episode that takes Ali and his father looking door-to-door for gardening jobs in a wealthy neighborhood sets their own limited means in stark contrast, but Magidi's humanely gentle vision treats even the rich with some sympathy. A footrace at the end of the film leads to an ironically triumphant scene that only Ali finds cause to lament. For its simplicity, the film is emotionally complex and immensely rewarding.
A wonderful film
I wish everyone could see this movie; it is beautifully produced and anyone seeing it will be left with compassion and understanding of life in a culture unfamiliar to most Americans. Buy it or rent it, but see it. And let all your family members see it, especially the kids.