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Iron Island

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List Price: $29.95
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Manufacturer: Kino International
Starring: Ali Nassirian, Hossein Farzi-Zadeh, Neda Pakdaman
Directed By: Mohammad Rasoulof

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0738329049522
Format: Closed-captioned
Label: Kino International
Manufacturer: Kino International
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Kino International
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2006-08-29
Running Time: 90
Studio: Kino International
Theatrical Release Date: 2005

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Editorial Reviews:

A huge, abandoned oil tanker becomes its own world as squatters make their lives upon it. Presiding over this haphazard society is Captain Nemat (Ali Nassirian), a leader who's part visionary, part supply sergeant, part snake oil salesman. As he bounds up and down the tanker's halls and stairways, he charmingly persuades the families living in rusted rooms to obey his rules while he hustles the goods they all need to survive. But this microcosm is threatened from within (the ship is slowly sinking) and without (the owners want to sell it for scrap metal), forcing Nemat to seek a radical solution. Meanwhile, Nemat's protege Ahmad (Hossein Farzi-Zadeh, The Beautiful City) has fallen in love with a girl who's already promised to marry another man. While Iron Island can be read as an allegory about life in the Muslim world, life on board the tanker feels organic and follows its own internal logic, making the movie vivid and vital. The movie's political conundrums feel implacably real and have no easy or absolute solution. But Nassirian is the movie's core; he holds Iron Island together with the same unquenchable drive that Nemat uses to hold together his ship-bound kingdom. Altogether, a rich and compelling film. --Bret Fetzer

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Summary: Incredible journey in symbolism
Comment: first off, I would like to say this from a viewer of independent movies globally.
If you are like me, always open to opportunities to experience a foriegn movie and its esoteric symbologies and creative spirit, this is a movie to have for your collective collection.
that said, I genuinely was moved by the capacity in which such a movie by M.R. can have in captivating for me these trying times in which your dreams are probably the last freedom you may have in the Western traditional culture.

cultivate an open dialogue with yourself after viewing this magnificent portayal of human bonding and sacrifice, and add to the response that I hope will follow in the reviews. it is a gem of the alchemist. a transforming microcosm of drama, and the human drama of Love, Life and the pursuit of happiness.

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