Gabbeh

Type:
Feature Film

Director:
Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Year:
1996

Time:
75 minutes

Language:
Farsi with English subtitles

"Dazzling! The bold, almost psychedelically vivid images are woven together with a dreamlike density as pure as that of The Blood of a Poet."
- Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

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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.

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