Synopsis
After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan to try to find her.
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Cast
- Ike OgutNaghadar
- Nelofer PaziraNafas
- Hassan TantaiTabib Sahid
- Sadou TeymouriKhak
- Hoyatala HakimiHayat
- Noam MorgenszternThree children (voice)
- Monica Hankievich
- Zahra Shafahi
- Safdar Shodjai
- Mollazaher Teymouri
Recommendations
- 91
Portland Oregonian
The director manages to maintain a steady streak of grim humor. Extreme repression can be bleakly funny in its idiocy, when viewed from a distance. - 90
Los Angeles Times
This remarkably revealing and timely film, in which the depiction of pain and sorrow is suffused with a sense of beauty and a graceful, flowing style, more than lives up to glowing advance notices. - 88
Chicago Tribune
Watching this film wakes you up; it is a window on an Iran and an Afghanistan we should have taken account of long ago -- seen though a master's eye, felt through a poet's touch. - 88
Charlotte Observer
Kandahar found itself in real-life controversy last December, when one of its actors was accused of murder. - 88
Chicago Sun-Times
Kandahar does not provide deeply drawn characters, memorable dialogue or an exciting climax. Its traffic is in images. - 80
Variety
A visually exalting, emotionally horrifying view of Afghanistan under the Taliban regime. - 75
Christian Science Monitor
While it's often harsh in style and melancholy in subject, Kandahar taps into veins of humor and compassion as well. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
With its lyrical vision of oppression, looks, if anything, milder now than it might have before the war.
