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Gabbeh
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Gabbeh's father refuses to allow her to marry a mysterious stranger on horseback who follows her nomadic family wherever they travel whom she falls in love with, until a series of stipulations have first been met.
Gabbeh's father refuses to allow her to marry a mysterious stranger on horseback who follows her nomadic family wherever they travel whom she falls in love with, until a series of stipulations have first been met.
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April 17, 2002
It is the visual imagery of the sheep, the wool being dyed, the rugs being made that take center stage.
January 01, 2000
Visually enchanting.
January 13, 2006
Makhmalbaf attempts to follow the carpet idea by making his film dreamily romantic and non-realistic. Events seem to leap around in time and space, much like a dream.
March 03, 2002
This poetic film affirms the knarled beauty of the natural world and the way stories give shape and meaning to life.
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September 29, 2005
appropriately slight
February 14, 2001
A work of shimmering beauty.
January 01, 2000
Movies such as this work like meditation or music, to nudge us toward the important.
June 05, 2002
Makhmalbaf weaves together different threads into an unusual and intriguing film.
January 01, 2000
Poetic and evocative, but too short at 75 minutes to unroll enough of a story, this gentle film nonetheless revels in the colors and everyday wonders of life.
New York Times
January 01, 2000
Like its subject, Gabbeh is woven with art.
January 01, 2000
The conceit is sweet but the execution is meandering.
The New Republic
January 01, 2000
There is hardly a composition in the film that couldn't be extracted and framed.
