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Children of Heaven

Bacheha-Ye aseman

1997

Majid Majidi

Mohammad Amir Naji, Amir Farrokh Hashemian, Bahare Sediqi, Masume Dair ...

7.8

3,415

Drama Zohre's shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zohre until they come up with an idea: they will share one pair of shoes, Ali's. School awaits. Will the plan succeed?

	Media	Author	Review
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"'Children of Heaven' is very nearly a perfect movie for children, and of course that means adults will like it, too (...) [It] glows with a kind of good-hearted purity (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		Janet Maslin The New York Times	"'Children of Heaven' does provide a kindly, enveloping sense of Iranian life and customs"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"The performances from Amir Forrikh Hashemian and Bahare Seddiqi (...) are wonderful (...) It is a film whose images and scenes (...) linger in the mind."
		Dennis Harvey Variety	"Sum effect is that of warm, simple charm — something that Majidi has become highly skilled at evoking. Child actors are clearly non-pro, but create winningly serious-minded characters nevertheless."
		Lisa Alspector Chicago Reader	"Because the children's points of view are so powerfully rendered, the plot of this elegant and lightly magical-realist 1997 drama never seems merely coincidental."
		Michael Thomson BBC	"Watching creative intelligence extract quality work from real people (ie non-actors) is always a pleasure (...) Small moments often reveal big truths (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Joshua Klein AV Club	"Majidi masterfully balances the serious subtext with entertaining vignettes (...) While 'Children Of Heaven' is as bright and well-paced as the best Disney films (...) Majidi avoids easy sentimentality"
		Time Out	"The film's storytelling is appealing, but you can't help feeling that the adults are too good to be true"

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