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“Gabbeh,” an adventure film from fundamentalist Iran, will be Shown at The Theatre on Gay Street, Friday, Oct. 16 at 8 p.m. This movie garnered raves all over Europe and won awards at both the Cannes and New York Film Festivals.
As clear and fluid as the limpid stream that opens the film, “Gabbeh” tells a timeless fable in a radically new way. “Gabbeh” is both a type of illustrated carpet and the name of the film’s central character, a serenely beautiful young woman who relates her tale to a memory-haunted old man. A member of a nomadic desert tribe, she falls in love with a dashing horseman, but her father’s opposition forces a hazardous elopement.
A final twist brings the connection between outer frame and inner tale into focus, and also confirms the film’s tinder* <tates
its “truth.”'The director, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, has said that Iranian cinema stems more directly from a still vital tradition of poetic storytelling than from any previous films. The disparate ingredients of “Gabbeh” are neither disjunctive nor esoteric bijt rhymed and blended into an awesome harmony; Makhmalbaf weaves his strands into lucid visual poetry. In Farsi with English subtitles.
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