Synopsis
The Color of Paradise (1999) is an Iranian family drama you can watch online on iFILM. Director Majid Majidi — whose Children of Heaven had just reached audiences worldwide two years earlier — returns to a child's perspective for a story about blindness, love, and what fathers choose not to see.
Mohammad, a blind boy played by Mohsen Ramezani, comes home from his school for the blind for the summer. His grandmother and sisters are glad to have him. His widowed father is not — he has found a potential bride, and a disabled son complicates the negotiations. Mohammad knows nothing of this. He navigates by touch and sound, running his fingers over leaves, stones and feathers, and he seems to understand the world more completely than the adults scheming around him.
Quiet, precisely observed, and hard to shake. Stream The Color of Paradise online on iFILM.
Comments 0