Cinema Poetry 12 - Gabbeh

Cinema Poetry is a video blog devoted to bringing you some of the most poetic scenes and sequences in the history of cinema. Mohsen Makhmalbaf's 1996 film Gabbeh is a single far-reaching poem for its entire running time, swaying in broad beautiful strokes between an ode and a dirge, and covering along the way birth, death, youth, age, marriage, abandonment, longing, tragedy, movement, tradition, nature, and life itself. It's practically a treatise on cinematic color, and like my last entry, it's hard to excerpt. The film is a fable with an emphasis on archetype and visual richness over standard three-act narrative. So the story does have coherence, but the kind of coherence that is found in a dream, an echo, or a distant memory, none of which are valued for progressing along logical lines, but for existing outside of such quotidian concerns. Like Sokurov's Mother and Son, this is a film that should've inspired an aesthetic revolution across national boundaries, but sadly did not.

Category:

Film & Animation

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• Cinema
• Poetry
• Gabbeh
• Mohsen
• Makhmalbaf

[akma632]

Mobarak boshi Mahmalbaf aga.

[Eberhardt61]

Gabbeh has remained one of my most poetic cinema experiences. So difficult to find the DVD, so thanks for posting.

[rememberslove]

lovely simply lovely

[arunah11]

A magnificent film !

[artohline37]

Wow. I'm totally confused, but it was amazing! I want to see it now.