A Moment of Innocence
A Moment of Innocence Persian , Nn o goldn is a 1996 film directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf. It is also known as Nun va Goldoon, Bread and Flower, Bread and Flower Pot, and The Bread and the Vase
Two decades later, Makhmalbaf made the decision to track down the policeman whom he had injured in an attempt to make amends. A Moment of Innocence is a dramatization of that real event.Although the film was banned in Iran, Western critics were very positive toward the film. Mike DAngelo called A Moment of Innocence a dizzying hybrid of autobiography, documentary, and mythology,...a bold...testament to our innate decency and capacity for love, and said that it ends with the greatest final freezeframe since The 400 Blows maybe the greatest final freezeframe ever. Stuart Klawans of The Nation said readers should contact him immediately if they see another film with so urgent and complete an image of peoples hurts, fears, needs and dreams. One of the few negative critical reactions came from Mick Lasalle of the San Francisco Chronicle, who called the film grindingly dull, and muddled and endless and implied that Makhmalbafs filmmaking was selfindulgent, meandering, pointless and irritating. ........
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