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A little girl convinces her mother to buy her a pair of red boots, but one of them gets lost.
The Boot
1993 ‘Chakmeh’ Directed by Mohammadali Talebi
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10 Sep 1993
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84/100
Talebi does it once again, like other Iranian directors of his time he was so good at getting the best out of the children in his films. Also the final fifteen minutes here are absolutely beautiful.
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Social realism and magic; strange laws that bound and connect things and humans together. Little acts of kindness in the everyday that become wholly meaningful and save the world. Talebi's masterpiece describes subtly both social reality in which human beings (in this case especially those of working class) are forced to work together and create trust in order to exist as well as child's world that is indifferent to this yet still connected to it, child's world that is somewhere between fairy tale and socialization. Film's focus is clearly in its human beings but at the same time it builds an image and little commentary of particular social reality. The Boot is terribly under-seen as seems to be the case…
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Simple story, big themes. One of the most realistic films I've seen about a child. Charming, heart breaking and compelling. Maybe not as stylish as a Kiarostami picture but yet another very good Iranian film. Ali-Talebi got some of the best performances from a child I've seen.