1996 · drama · family · iranian
Bag of Rice
Directed by Mohammad Ali Talebi1h 20m1996
A small child and her elderly neighbor are having all kinds of small adventures in the streets of Tehran to get a sack of rice.
Our read: Bag of Rice (1996) reads as a warm, steady, grounded drama · family · iranian entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle drama / family, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- warm
- gentle
- tender
- intimate
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