زمانی برای مستی اسبها
Réalisation:
Bahman GhobadiScénario:
Bahman GhobadiPhotographie:
Saed NikzatMusique:
Hossein AlizadehActeurs·trices:
Ayoub Ahmadi, Rojin Younessi, Amaneh Ekhtiar-dini, Madi Ekhtiar-dini, Nezhad Ekhtiar-dini, Kolsolum Ekhtiar-dini, Karim Ekhtiar-dini (plus)Résumés(1)
Winner of the Camera D or at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, A Time for Drunken Horses announced Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi as a major talent. His debut follows the heart-wrenching drama of a Kurdish family living on the Iran-Iraq border. The only work available in this poverty-stricken locale is to smuggle goods between the countries, through hills stalked by armed bandits. These dangers rob Ayoub (Ayoub Ahmadi), Amaneh (Amaneh Ekhtiar-dini), Rojin (Rojin Younessi) and the developmentally disabled Madi (Madi Ekhtiar-dini) of their parents, and they are forced to fend for themselves. Ayoub is the eldest boy, and soon starts making the perilous overland journeys himself, desperate to raise money for Madi’s life-saving operation. Surviving the snowy valleys and marauding thieves does not bring in enough money, and their uncle sets up an arranged marriage for Rojin, threatening to split up the close-knit siblings. (texte officiel du distributeur)
(plus)Critiques (1)
A Time for Drunken Horses is a typical festival film and exactly the kind of Iranian production that film critics and the festival audience are amazed by and speak of Iranian cinema only in superlatives. However, this category of films makes up only a fraction of Iranian production, which focuses on average melodramas tailored to the taste of an uneducated audience. It is essentially a documentary about the hard life of mountaineers in a border province far from the prosperity of oil fields and urban culture. Additionally, and this is also typical for success at festivals, it portrays the world of children and includes the motif of physical disability or handicap of one of the story's characters. The director's typical approach is to use non-actors, which may work for some people, but unfortunately, I do not belong to this category. As a depiction of social conditions in the area, it is naturally powerful, but as a fictional film, where I would appreciate a quality screenplay and performances, it is insufficient. So in the end, I lean towards three stars and a 60% overall impression.
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