☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ½
The
House is Black (1963) – F. Farrokhzad
The images are sometimes too much to
bear, inside this leper colony in Iran.
Yet, they are somehow hauntingly beautiful and horrific at the same
time. Your heart goes out to these
outcasts, as you imagine the rejection they must have felt from the rest of
humanity. However, the people here
retain their dignity…through religion, through play, by the force of their
spirit. They thank their god for having
eyes to see and ears to hear, even if we as viewers dwell on their sores, their
deformities, their exile. The editing
here is fast (for the time) and we are besieged with images – some difficult to
take, some uplifting, all humane. The
voiceover is lyrical and poetic (not descriptive) and this elevates the film to
something more than a stark look at a difficult situation.
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