Baran (2001)

Baran is brought to us by the same writer/director, Majid Majidi, who also made Children of Heaven. Personally I preferred Baran to Children of Heaven. It is a rather simple film with little dialogue...Baran for example says nothing throughout the film...but yet her silence is able to speak to us.Some have said that it kind of looks like a documentary, I guess it does in its simple natural approach. What the film does is gives us a glimpse into a certain period of Lateef's life where he meets Rahmat/Baran. You see Baran is a girl of about 16 or so. When her father injures himself at work, she goes to take his place as a construction worker and disguises herself as a boy. And she went by the name of Rahmat. Lateef works at the same construction site and so he meets Rahmat. He will later discover her secret and falls in love with her. He sees her hardships and her perseverance to survive and tries to secretly help her. But the doom love affair of course ends before it pretty much begins.

I would highly recommend this film. Not only does it has great story...but it opens your eyes to a different environment, culture and life.


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