Synopsis
Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now the one thing keeping him going is the thought of finding his wife, who thinks he's been dead for over twenty years.
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Cast
- Behrouz VossoughiSahel
- Monica BellucciMina
- Caner Cindoruk
- Yılmaz ErdoğanAkbar Rezai
- Belçim Bilgin
- Arash LabafSon
- Ali Pourtash
- Beren SaatDaughter
- Ahmet Mümtaz TaylanDriver
Recommendations
- 90
The Hollywood Reporter
Haunting feature that crafts fiction from the inspiration of real-life Kurdish-Iranian poet Sadegh Kamangar. Co-star Monica Bellucci may attract much of the attention Stateside, but the film's ravishing aesthetic and multiple points of political interest will make it fascinating to many cineastes. - 75
Chicago Reader
This is deeply felt, poetic filmmaking, though the unrelentingly dour tone isn't for everyone. [18 Oct 2012, p.41] - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
A poet imprisoned during the Islamic Revolution is released 27 years later. Camera focus, reflections and water droplets are sublimely designed to articulate what his liberty will let him see. [04 Oct 2012, p.4] - 63
Chicago Tribune
Rhino Season unapologetically favors poetry over prose, layering its images and time frames in elegantly wrought detail. At times the visual landscape feels fussy. [12 Oct 2012, p.C3] - 50
Variety
Burdened with a complex flashback structure and an unemotional core, this multi-decade saga of an imprisoned Iranian poet and his family has surprisingly little resonance. - 50
IndieWire
We simply couldn’t get invested in this film, despite our very best efforts.
