Product Details

• Actors: Bahman Farmanara, Roya Nonahali, Ebrahim Abadi, Dariush Asadzade, Firouz Behjat-Mohamadi
• Directors: Bahman Farmanara
• Writers: Bahman Farmanara
• Producers: Fazlollah Yousefpour, Morteza Shayesteh
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: Farsi
• Subtitles: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: New Yorker Video
• VHS Release Date: September 21, 2004
• Run Time: 93 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0002J4YO2
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #514,754 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Multilayered film, full of associations, is also very funny, June 15, 2001

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"stevek1833" (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews

My wife (who spent most of her life in Iran--and much of her adult life under the current Islamic government) and I (who have never visited Iran) saw this film recently and agreed that it was excellent. It is a "director-making-a-movie" film in the vein of Fellini's "8 1/2" or Allen's "Stardust Memories"--hence full of life/art observations--but contains wry political observations I don't recall in either of these other films. Death is a constant presence here; the director, after not making any films for 20 years, due to the censorship of the regime, is making a documentary on funeral practices in Iran. The deaths of several characters--including the director's own--interweave in ways that are both touching and hilarious. It also introduces the non-Irani viewer to a sense of everyday middle-class life in modern Iran.

Don't miss this one! A real gem.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great film from Iran, October 9, 2003

By A Customer

Another award winer film from Iran. Directed by Bahman Farman-ara, this is the story of a man (the director) who has seen most of his close friends have passed away and decides to actually has his funeral while he is alive. A must see film. ...

0 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Awful, August 19, 2009

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Melissa M. Youssefi (WA State) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine (DVD)

Our family recently saw some Iranian movies at a film festivle so I thought it would be fun to see more. However this proved me wrong. This film was horrible, weird and very boring. I do not recommend it.