Iranian-Kurdish film director Bahman Ghobadi ("Turtles Can Fly", "A Time For Drunken Horses") takes us on a road-trip from Iran to post-Saddam Iraq on a minibus. And just like the previous two movies we screened, "Goodbye Boys" and "Ten Canoes", the director uses non-professional actors and actresses to play the characters in his film.
Besides the driver, the passengers are an old Kurdish musician called Mamo, and his "children" -- actually his ex-students. The famous Mamo wishes to travel with his band to Kurdish-Iraq for a concert, his first in Iraq in 30-plus years. Saddam Hussein had repressed Kurdish culture in Iraq during his rule. The situation is better in Iran, but by not much... women are prohibited from performing.
The trip to Iraq would be risky, and a village elder predicts that serious danger would befall the old musician. Still he presses on with his dream to play in Kurdish Iraq.
Along the way he searches for his singing partner, a woman named Hesho, to join his group. Old Mamo also faces obstacles from the overzealous Iranian police, ever on the lookout for religious transgressions... such as female singers.
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`Half Moon'is a brilliant movie which uses symbolism to the fullest to convey its almost unspeakable intent. It is not calling for the establishment of a Kurdistan state -but said it clear enough in the form of a musician who want to bring a group to perform on an international stage with the BBCs, CNNs etc in attendance! When the Kurdish musician cross the border of Iran, Turki and Iraq they faced hostile soldiers blocking their ways...
In the course of it the Kurdish folks exposed some reasons for their `unpopularity' in the supposedly islamic heartland: they smoke ganja, they do the Hindoo like tabla music ( a group was said to be exciled from Iran in the movie)and head banging dances, consulting the `gurus' (complete with kissing his feet-ala DYMM, Duli(`foot') yang Maha Mulia). The Kurdish, being not completly assimilated into the Islamic fraternity become a living testimony of the Hindoo past for the whole region. That might be what the others in the regligious heartland refuse to acknowledge.
The film is well made -not in the sense of using fancy editing or shooting techniques. It is unassuming but frank. Good movie.
Ong BK
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