Thursday, August 30, 2007

Half Moon' tracks the travails of Kurdish musicians

Boston Globe, Movie Review

By Ty Burr

August 29, 2007

'Half Moon' follows a troupe of Kurdish musicians who just want a place where they can perform.

The Kurds may not yet have a country, but as long as Bahman Ghobadi keeps making movies they have a national cinema. The Iranian-born director came to prominence with 2000's "A Time for Drunken Horses" and followed through with 2004's breathtaking "Turtles Can Fly," set in an Iraqi refugee camp on the eve of the US invasion. Full Text


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