www.thesongofsparrowsmovie.com
Regent Releasing will open
THE SONG OF SPARROWS, the new film from Iranian master Majid Majidi,
director of Best Foreign Language Oscar nominee CHILDREN OF HEAVEN, as well as
THE COLOR OF PARADISE and BARAN, on Friday, April 10 at Laemmle's Music Hall in
Beverly Hills and Laemmle's Town Center 5 in Encino. Winner of the Silver Bear
for Best Actor at the Berlin International Film Festival and Iran's selection
for Best Foreign Language Film for the 2008 Academy Awards, Majidi's luminous
and humorous tale of morality and redemption will initially open on Friday,
April 3 in New York at Lincoln Plaza Cinemas. The New York and Los Angeles
releases will be followed by a national rollout.
This deeply humanistic story
opens in stunning pastoral Iran, where an unassuming and underprivileged ostrich
farmer, Karim (Berlin winner Reza Naji), fights to support his family. In a
string of bad luck, Karim's daughter loses her expensive hearing aid and Karim
suddenly loses his job when an ostrich comically escapes from the farm.
Fortunately, his financial woes are short-lived when Karim stumbles upon an easy
way to make money in bustling Tehran: he inadvertently gives a man a ride on the
back of his motorbike in return for a fee which prompts him to continue his taxi
service on a regular basis. Every day Karim rides into town to ferry passengers
through the gridlocked streets before he brings back home all kinds of useless
rummage - and soon finds himself entangled in a world of hustle, materialism and
greed. When Karim's relationships with family and friends come close to the
breaking point, he must find a way to reconcile his new life with the old. With
a cast of wonderful non-professional child actors and a haunting score by
Grammy-nominated composer and master sitar player
Hossein
Alizadeh, THE
SONG OF SPARROWS
is Majidi's latest gem in his collection of timeless fables.
Writer-director Majid Majidi is
the only Iranian director ever nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign
Language Film. CHILDREN OF HEAVEN, THE COLOR OF PARADISE AND BARAN were
critical hits in the US and abroad. Majidi was one of five international film
directors invited to create a documentary short film to introduce the city of
Beijing for
the 2008 Olympics. Grammy-nominated composer-musician Hossein Alizadeh, a master
tar and setar player, provides the haunting score for the film.
96 minutes - In Farsi with
English subtitles - Unrated
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