Where Is the Friend's Home? (1987)
An 8 year old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school. (imdb)
Genre: Drama
Franchise: Koker trilogy
AKA: Khane-ye doust kodjast?, Where Is The Friend's House?
Country: Iran
Directed By: Abbas Kiarostami
Written By: Abbas Kiarostami
Starring: Babek Ahmed Poor, Ahmed Ahmed Poor, Kheda Barech Defai, Iran Outari, Ait Ansari, Sadika Taohidi
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Where Is the Friend's Home? belongs to 38 collections
1. Criterion Collection (public: moderated by caffe - 144 stars)
2. Features under 91 minutes (public: moderated by epiphany - 46 stars)
3. They Shoot Pictures 1,000 Greatest Films (2008 revision) (public: moderated by Scottathon - 38 stars)
4. Jonathan Rosenbaum's Top 1000 Movies (public: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 35 stars)
5. They Shoot Pictures 1,000 Greatest Films (2010 revision) (public: moderated by MMAlpha - 32 stars)
6. They Shoot Pictures 1,000 Greatest Films (2014 revision) (public: moderated by Jehan - 27 stars)
7. They Shoot Pictures 1,000 Greatest Films (2012 revision) (public: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 25 stars)
8. They Shoot Pictures 1,000 Greatest Films (2017 revision) (public: moderated by iconogassed - 18 stars)
9. They Shoot Pictures' Recommended Viewing (public: moderated by Cinephile - 17 stars)
10. They Shoot Pictures 1,000 Greatest Films (2013 revision) (public: moderated by rant1229 - 16 stars)
11. The Story of Film: An Odyssey (public: moderated by rant1229 - 15 stars)
12. They Shoot Pictures 1,000 Greatest Films (2011 revision) (public: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 14 stars)
13. Best of criticker: Drama (public: moderated by avgcrtckr - 14 stars)
14. FIPRESCI Prize (public: moderated by paulofilmo - 12 stars)
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17. Children in lead role (public: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 5 stars)
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19. BFI list of the 50 films you should see by the age of 14 (public: moderated by Thegoodboy - 4 stars)
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This plain simplicity is easy and disarming. Watching this adorable boy's wide-eyed, single-minded determination to navigate the grown-up landscape, it becomes apparent that children and adults live in completely separate worlds. If Ahmed understands one thing, it's that he is doing what is right, even if the authority figures in his way can't bring themselves to comprehend or even care to begin with.
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Unusually perceptive film about children and the degree to which they are capable of acting with moral agency. Kiarostami uses the 'journey' of a persistent young boy to return his friend's notework as an entry point to explore attitudes towards children in the wider Iranian society and the way adults engage with kids in an either overly disciplinary or outright dismissive fashion. It's less bold than his future works, but it's well constructed, and the night scenes are among his best work.
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In its own quaint way, this is a rather sad film about children being smarter and better at problem-solving than adults because they don't adhere to arbitrary codes, but their opportunities to prove this are always quelled. The dialogue can be rambly and very reiterative which makes the miscommunication between kids and adults even sadder. Luckily there's some hope in the film's last act, which features some gorgeous melancholic nighttime imagery. Appears far more simpler than it likely is.
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Kiarostami and80's/90's Iranian film in general more so than any other country or time period seem to have a real foot in what makes a story human.How their movies truly are cinema of the people and for the people.The power of Kiastromi to expose systems and comment on the functions human nature all while maintaining a gorgeous looking picture is what I think every filmmaker before and after him has tried to achieve with maybe one or two succeeding at his level.At least I still have more to see
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Acting, fiction, authentic life, are they truly possible? Contrivances, usually a thing frowned upon, here, because Kiarostami is so forthcoming in its usage, add dimensions and, at the same time, dissects them to reveal between them relations and components interacting with each other. The child, an actor, who, against instructions, looks into the camera (see film-poster), is shown to be a child, and in a way is living the tale hes participating in.
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Fun fact: Balthazar from "Au Hasard Balthazar" makes a cameo appearance.
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What lisa- said.
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