The Wind Will Carry Us

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The Wind Will Carry Us (Bād mā rā khāhad bord) is a 1999 Iranian film by Abbas Kiarostami.The title is a reference to a poem written by iranian famous modern female poet Forough Farrokhzad.In 1999, the movie was nominated for Golden Lion of Venice Film Festival. It won Grand Special Jury Prize, FIPRESCI Prize and CinemAvvenire award in this festival. It received numerous other nominations and awards as well.

1 Plot summary
2 Themes
3 External links
4 See also

[edit] Plot summary

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A group of journalists and production engineers arrive in a Kurdish village to document the locals' mourning rituals anticipating the death of an elderly woman, but she remains alive. The main engineer is forced to slow down and appreciate the lifestyle of the village.He who stayed at the village with great enthusiasm for the burial of the old woman finds nothing interesting in the ceremony at the end.

[edit] Themes

There are several references to the poems of iranian poets like Omar Khayyám and Forough Farrokhzad in the film which are all about the ideas of life and death.Some symbols of death can be seen during the film(like a bone floating in water in the final scene)which could be regarded as memento mori or more likely carpe diem the idea of enjoying life despite it`s short length.