The Color of Paradise (1999)
Mohammad, a boy at Tehran's institute for the blind, waits for his dad to pick him up for summer vacation. While waiting, he realizes a baby bird has fallen from its nest: he chases away a cat, finds the bird, climbs a tree, and puts it back. His father finally comes and takes him to their village where his sisters and granny await... (imdb)
Cast and Information
Directed By: Majid Majidi
Written By: Majid Majidi
Starring: Hossein Mahjoub, Kamal Mirkarimi, Mohsen Ramezani, Mohamad Rahmani, Salameh Feyzi, Morteza Fatemi, Masoome Zinati, Zahra Mizani, Moghadam Behboodi, Farahnaz Safari, Elham Sharifi, Behzad Rafi
Genres: Drama, Family/Kids
AKA: Rang-e khoda
Country: Iran
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The Color of Paradise belongs to 20 collections
1. Features under 91 minutes (public: moderated by epiphany - 56 stars)
2. Netflix Instant (public: moderated by somnivore - 29 stars)
3. Best of criticker: Drama (public: moderated by avgcrtckr - 17 stars)
4. Doubling The Canon (public - 13 stars)
5. Doubling The Canon (2010 update) (public: moderated by MMAlpha - 5 stars)
6. Disability (public: moderated by djross - 4 stars)
7. Blindness (public: moderated by djross - 2 stars)
8. Doubling the Canon (2011 update) (public: moderated by MMAlpha - 1 star)
9. Doubling the Canon (2012 update) (public: moderated by Cinephile - 1 star)
10. film puanlamalarım (public - 1 star)
11. Best of criticker: Family/Kids (public: moderated by avgcrtckr)
12. En Başarılı İran Filmleri (public: moderated by y.nihilist)
13. DtC Doubling the Canon 2021 Nominees (public: moderated by lineuphere)
14. Piero Scaruffi's list of great films (public)
15. Sarsanlar (private: Ozancan - 3 stars)
16. best of the year (private: ehk2 - 1 star)
17. Iran (private: kendell - 1 star)
18. seen (private: gamzeknc)
19. 2019 (private: gamzeknc)
20. C-1990 (private: cantahta)
Browse the full list of collections
| Date | User | Rating | |
| Mar 13 |  |
Ab-ı Haya | 78 56% |
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03.17 Hobbit
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| Sep 15, 2018 |  |
deep_green | 95 99% |
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What a profound and multi-dimensional cinematography (most prominently). This does things you've never seen before.
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| Jul 21, 2013 |  |
catcry | 20 8% |
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...and the whole score goes to Production Designer for SOME dreamy and lovely scene designs.
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| Oct 06, 2012 |  |
gokseltuzun | 100 95% |
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perfect stranger
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| Feb 20, 2012 | susmatt | 78 78% |
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wonderful & sad
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| Jun 08, 2011 |  |
MartinTeller | 73 46% |
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There is great beauty in its touching relationships, pastoral settings, and narrative simplicity. Except for a few parts there are a bit mawkish, I was really in love with this movie. And then there's the last fifteen minutes, where Majidi smacks you over the head with the kind of grandiose dramatic moments that he had been so skillfully avoiding. It was more than satisfying enough as a religious fable without these large gestures. However, the rest of it is so grand that I still recommend it.
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| Apr 18, 2011 |  |
Red_Falcon_ | 72 57% |
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Mohsen Ramezani, who portrays the lead character of Mohammad, is phenomenal in this film.He inhabits his character with a graceful charm and strength of character that really showcase's who he is and not that he is blind.The use of vibrant color and heightened sound help's to show the contrasts of his relation to the world compared to those who can see.
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| Feb 20, 2011 |  |
yesistasty | 95 90% |
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Stunning film. One of the most gorgeous films I've seen.
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| Nov 09, 2010 |  |
JooJoo | 3 30% |
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Gorgeous imagery, maudlin story.
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| Mar 27, 2008 |  |
yilb | 40 25% |
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Pretty nice for this sort of thing. I could have done without the slow-mo.
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| Aug 14, 2007 |  |
willofgaia | 50 7% |
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Shamelessly manipulative and excrutiatingly dull
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| Aug 14, 2007 |  |
aqeel | 79 88% |
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Brilliant
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| Apr 27, 2007 |  |
CinematicESP | 84 62% |
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A good story with some great acting. It's shot really well. The river scene at the end is pretty cool too.
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| Apr 24, 2007 |  |
weirdyoda | 86 74% |
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The river seen is pretty sweet. It's interesting what countries without the stupidity of PETA or CGI can accomplish. I generally liked the story until the God shit at the end.
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| Average Percentile 69.19% from 539 Ratings |  |