Movie Review: Color of Paradise

Story: When you travel you get to see how other people live. The clothes they wear, the food they eat, the color, sound and light. If you can't travel to a place, a good substitute is a quality foreign film. This Iranian gem from Majid Majidi brings us a glorious, heart wrenching, exhausting movie experience about a blind boy, who experiences the world most people don't notice, through sound and touch, his anguished, widowed father, who feels burdened with this blind boy as a son, his adoring religious grandmother, and two beautiful young Iranian girls as his sisters. It is about vision, both limited and unlimited, nature as spirit, sin and redemption. This is not an easy film. It is slow paced, and at times very difficult to watch and we were totally spent at the end of the film.

Acting: Everyone was simply wonderful.

Pets: One cat, lots of chickens, birds, sheep, a turtle and a horse.

Visual Art: The fabulous landscape

Soundtrack: The sounds of nature

Quirky Meter: 5

Tissue Usage: I have a cold, so it is hard to say, but I am guessing 2.

Oscar Worthy: Sure

Length: 90 minutes

LOBO HOWLS: 8