Patience Stone
[The] beautiful Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani [gives a] spellbinding performance in a highly demanding central role.
The Patience Stone
Author Atiq Rahimi's adapts his own best-selling novel about a Muslim woman whose paralyzed husband unconsciously assumes the role of a magical force, which shields her from the sorrows of life in her war-torn village. Her unnamed Middle Eastern country caught up in an insurrection, the loyal, thirty-something wife faithfully sits watch over her vegetative husband, who has been all but forgotten by his brothers and fellow Jihadists. Over time, she gathers the courage to tell her husband all of the things she had remained silent about during their 10 years of marriage. Throughout the course of these missives, she speaks frankly of the disappointments, sorrows, and sacrifices that have made her life so difficult throughout the previous decade. Only weeks later, when the isolated wife enters into a relationship with a young soldier, does she begin to reveal the woman who she had kept locked up deep inside ever since the day she was married.
Genre
Drama,
War
Web Site
Runtime
102
Language
Farsi
Director
Atiq Rahimi
Cast
Golshifteh Farahani,
Hamid Djavadan,
Hassina Burgan
FEATURED REVIEW
Alissa Simon, Variety
Sensual and horrifying, “The Patience Stone” plays like a mesmerizing, modern take on the tales of Scheherazade and a parable on the suffering of Afghan women. Afghanistan-born, France-based helmer Atiq Rahimi adapts his own novel set in a Muslim country torn apart by war, where a beautiful woman in ...
Played at
Royal 8.16.13 - 8.29.13
Town Center 5 8.23.13 - 8.29.13
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