A Moment of Innocence

A Moment of Innocence (1996)★ 8.0/10

Not Rated · IR,FR · 78 min · August 13, 1996

  • Comedy
  • Drama

Directed by: Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Written by: Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Years after injuring a policeman, filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf reenacts the event with his former victim, blurring memory and reality.

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Reviews

Iifer_meFebruary 28, 2023

moving back and forth between reality and dreams

The Personal experience was adapted into the movie, while there was no much personal feeling mixed in. It was very restrained, moving back and forth between reality and dreams.
AAllchaplinFebruary 28, 2023

a companion chapter of "Close-up"

Four and a half stars for the film, it can be regarded as a companion chapter of "Close-up", which uses the deceptiveness of scenes and cameras to blur reality and fiction, and they use real characters to enter the mirror to perform the process of recreating past events. When the memory of the previous generation is entrusted or imposed on the next generation, the spontaneous contrast and conflict is the absurdity of history, and the once idealistic radical has become groundless. And the humanity squeezed out of the obsession with history is the purest and most touching part.
DDonald.wFebruary 28, 2023

Very interesting Iran story

The daughter of the director's cousin and the little actor in the car suddenly entered the dialogue between the characters, and the sudden time-space transition shocked me. From reality to drama and back to reality, the two conversions are silent and flawless. Actors in Iranian movies always have a very natural performance state. I don’t know how to act like this, maybe the reasons are the unfamiliar culture or maybe Iranians are naturally good actors. Several young actors do a good job in the film, and I love their way of tilting their heads to one side. The soldier is the biggest highlight of the film, a narcissistic, infatuated, and lovely person. After waiting for 20 years, I found that the love I regretted and missed was actually a conspiracy. Very interesting story.
111lieselotteFebruary 28, 2023

A good ending

They want food and flowersinstead of daggers and pistols, and the ending is very good.
DDéo-GarcezFebruary 28, 2023

A vivid example of "expression is completely above the film"

the form is particularly explosive, performing a day in the world
AAmor agora!February 28, 2023

Miraculously rough and beautiful

if you haven't watched "Close-up", the surprise will be stronger, especially the abrupt end at the end
Cclaudio_carvalhoFebruary 28, 2023

This moment is enough to go down in the history books.

It is not just the blending of reality and images, but more importantly, the past that all these points to. In rehearsal after rehearsal, we realize that it is impossible to reproduce the past, just like the light that has been removed with time, but it is still important to keep looking back at the past. The police found the truth and shot and killed the false delusion. The director saw hope from the final freeze frame, and it was also a kind of reconciliation.
FFilipa476February 28, 2023

very innocent

Like a touching TV show, beautiful, comfortable and funny.
DDinis_892February 28, 2023

Make the unbearable experience into the plot of the movie, and turn the pistol and sharp knife into flowers and naan.

It adds a documentary-like simplicity with a play-in-play approach, and warms the soul with a two-line parallel and cleverly intertwined narrative. It's hard to tell whether it's true or false, and it's hard to find love between men and women. Movies can not only prolong life three times, but also travel through time to reconstruct the past, or make up for regrets or find out. Hooray, movies.
Ssohtk77February 28, 2023

Four and a half stars

art comes from life, but it can never be copied; images can be shot according to the established intentions, but the ever-changing life can't control its light, emotion and direction; everyone can be the director of himself or life, but you can't change the past ;Some passages interlaced with reality and reality are playful and magical, writing another unique way of "recording"; the lens cut of the last paragraph is very good.
AallanpicksFebruary 28, 2023

love it

The girl is so beautiful!haha
Ccarolina1seFebruary 28, 2023

--"Have you seen a ray of sunshine?"

"Sunshine will move" Sunshine will move, time is difficult to reshape, life will not come again, but such innocent moments can be found in Mason's movies-let time Reshaping, life repeating itself, the flowers and naans that were not sent when I was young, instead of daggers and guns, and reconciliation with the hatred and pain of the past, so wonderful and moving Movies are the magical magic that constantly creates moments of innocence🥰

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