Re: Children of Heaven
Its available from amazon i think.
Heres the review from bbc. It was on just last week aswell.
The Colour of Paradise is a moving story from beginning to end. It focuses on Mohammad, an eight-year-old blind boy, who is still yearning for the arrival of his widower father when the summer term ends and his friends have all gone home. Once his father arrives, he takes Mohammad first to his concerned grandmother and then to a blind carpenter who finds the boy’s innate sensitivity crucial in teaching him about wood.
Mohammad’s sensitivity is, in fact, powerfully contrasted with his father’s boorish, egotistical attempts to offload him in order to prevent the socially awkward blind boy standing in the way of his planned marriage.
As usual, Majid Majidi relies mainly on non-actors, and real-life blind boy Mohsen Ramezani gives a wonderfully unfussy, natural interpretation of Mohammad. His tearful encounters with both his father and the carpenter come across as completely real.
The director is happy to linger on small details (like Mohammad trying to catch the wind from a moving bus) so as to capture the intensity of the boy experiencing the world, and there are any number of scenes which are gripped by immense - but always low-key - power. Mohammed opening his heart to the carpenter will stay with you for some time.
[RIGHT]**Michael Thomson**[/RIGHT]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/cinema/features/feature_colour_of_paradise.shtml
