2009 Iranian movie
Rating: 16/20
Plot: A guy rows around and collects people's tears.
"It's no use! The only solution is monkey urine!"
With landscapes impossibly white and alien, this looks like it was filmed on another planet, maybe that salt planet in that really good Star Wars movie that everybody seems upset about. The meditative pace, folkloric allusions, and dream logic also give this Iranian film an otherworldly flavor that, despite the fact that I've seen well over 200 movies, made this a unique experience. Collecting tears to transform into pearls (I think?), whispered messages in jars to take to fairies in wells, the daughter of the Iranian Mark Twain marrying the sea, and a monkey as the man with 10,000 faces. It's a quietly wild trip, completely captivating and beautiful.
The Iranian government won't allow me to figure out which little person actor played Khotejish.
Recommended by Eric.
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