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(aka "Khane-ye doust kodjast" or "Where is the Friend's Home?" or "Where is the Friend's House?")
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
USA 1987
The first film in Abbas Kiarostami’s sublime, interlacing Koker Trilogy takes a simple premise—a boy searches for the home of his classmate, whose school notebook he has accidentally taken—and transforms it into a miraculous child’s-eye adventure of the everyday. As our young hero zigzags determinedly across two towns, aided (and sometimes misdirected) by those he encounters, his quest becomes both a revealing portrait of rural Iranian society in all its richness and complexity and a touching parable about the meaning of personal responsibility. Sensitive and profound, Where Is the Friend’s House? is shot through with all the beauty, tension, and wonder a single day can contain. *** Before he captured the top prize at Cannes for A Taste of Cherry, Abbas Kiarostami made three films set in the northern Iranian cities of Koker and Poshteh which became known as his "Earthquake Trilogy." Where is the Friends Home? is the first of these and opens in an unkempt Koker classroom where a browbeating teacher informs young Nematzadeh (Ahmed Ahmed Poor) of an impending expulsion as his 3rd infraction of having incomplete homework. Our plot has begun. Both engaging and unassuming, this is a film of classic depth by Kiarostami - one of his best.... much better experienced than discussed. |
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Theatrical Release: February 1st, 1987 (Fajr Film Festival)
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Also available on Blu-ray in the UK by Criterion in September 2019: |
Distribution | InSight Films - Region 1 - NTSC | Criterion Spine #990 - Region 'A' / 'B' - Blu-ray |
Runtime | 1:19:48 | 1:23:26.835 |
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1.52:1 Original Aspect Ratio Average Bitrate: 6.29 mb/s NTSC 720x480 29.97 f/s |
1.66 :1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 48,771,954,705 bytesFeature: 25,171,980,288 bytesVideo Bitrate: 36.08 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video |
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Audio | Farsi (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono) | LPCM Audio Persian 1152 kbps 1.0 / 48 kHz / 1152 kbps / 24-bit |
Subtitles | English (burned-in) | English, None |
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Release Information:
Edition Details: • "Where is the Friend's Home" Screensaver
• MP3 music from the closing credits
accessible on DVD-Rom |
Release Information: Studio: Criterion
1.66 :1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 48,771,954,705 bytesFeature: 25,171,980,288 bytesVideo Bitrate: 36.08 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
Edition Details: • Homework (1989), a feature-length documentary by director Abbas Kiarostami, newly restored (1:17:32) • Conversation from 2015 between Kiarostami and programmer Peter Scarlet (1:07:35) The Koker Trilogy Blu-ray package has a liner notes booklet with an essay by Cheshire.
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Colin Zavitz
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ON THE DVD: Firstly, yes the image is a little soft, but you must accept
the deplorable condition this print (one of the few available) was in.
You can trust me that this is far superior to ANY VHS copies of this
film that I have seen. I am quite impressed with this first offering
from InSight Films. This is a real step forward in offering some classic
world cinema films on DVD that have, until now, remained buried in
decrepit prints and pirated copies. Not only have they anamorphisized
the 1.52 aspect ratio image without a hitch, the sound is likewise been
cleaned up, yet not altered from its original 2 track mono. Bravo
InSight Films!
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