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Shaghayeh Djodat, Hossein Moharami, Rogheih Moharami

"Dazzling! The bold, almost psychedelically vivid images are woven together with a dreamlike density as pure as that of The Blood of a Poet or Natural Born Killers." —Owen Gleiberma...( read more  read more... )n, Entertainment Weekly

One of the most critically acclaimed films of the year, Gabbeh is an epic tale of the forbidden passion that shapes the legend of a magical carpet.

A folkloric carpet (Gabbeh), picturing a man and a woman riding away on horseback, is the prized possession of a nomadic elderly couple. When they sit to wash it on the bank of a creek, a beautiful young woman suddenly emerges from the carpet to join them. Once held hostage by the endless restraints of the family that fashioned the carpet, she reveals the secret of the carpet lies within the mysterious black-clad rider on the white horse. Month after month, season after season, he had followed her family from afar, always present, always waiting, howling to her songs of love – longing for her to run away with him.

Director Mohsen Makhmalbaf's masterpiece is a brilliantly colorful, profoundly romantic ode to beauty, nature, love and art.

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Unrated, 75 min.

Directed by: Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Release Date: September 13, 1996

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DVD Release Date: September 20, 2005

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  • pejvaks
    February 18, 2007
    pejvaks
    Beauty of nature, flows into the art of weaving a special carpet called Gabbeh. With each row to be weaved, a simple tribal girl gets her destiny in her own hands.
  • stello
    January 14, 2007
    stello
    Incredibly beautiful!

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