DIRECTOR
Abbas Kiarostami
RUNTIME
1h 11m
RATING
NR
CAST
Masud Zandbegleh, Hassan Darabi, Mostafa Tari
SYNOPSIS
Abbas Kiarostami’s first feature focuses on a boy in a provincial city so avid to get to Tehran to see a soccer match that he’ll lie to adults and cheat other kids. A quest film that’s also a study of youthful obsession, it’s filmed in edgy black and white with a quiet energy that matches its hero’s. “The Traveler” has an acridly ironic ending and one of the best performances by a child in Kiarostami’s early work.
CAST
Masud Zandbegleh, Hassan Darabi, Mostafa Tari
SYNOPSIS
Abbas Kiarostami’s first feature focuses on a boy in a provincial city so avid to get to Tehran to see a soccer match that he’ll lie to adults and cheat other kids. A quest film that’s also a study of youthful obsession, it’s filmed in edgy black and white with a quiet energy that matches its hero’s. “The Traveler” has an acridly ironic ending and one of the best performances by a child in Kiarostami’s early work.
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This March, the Egyptian theater proudly present ‘Milestone Movies: The Anniversary Collection - 1974’ screening series. Featuring a selection of timeless classics to revisit or discover for the first time, including seven 35mm prints, two rarely screened archival prints of Martin Scorsese’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore and John Cassavetes’ A Woman Under the Influence, as well as the Los Angeles premiere of the DCP restoration of Jack Hill’s Foxy Brown.
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