The wind will carry us

Bad ma ra khahad bord
(1999 / Iran, France / Abbas Kiarostami)

When I saw The wind will carry us again after three years, its lyrical beauty seemed even more obvious to me than the first time.
The Film is about a man who has an inner struggle which he is unable to perceive. Only at the end of the film he can aknowledge it, though he remains unable to solve it. The small village he came to, 700 miles away from Teheran, awakens his senses, his lust for life, even though he came initially looking for death. When in the end the old woman, the protagonist and the film crew have been waiting to die for, finally passes away, the by then already unexpected event takes on a new significance. Like the character himself, the viewer has experienced a journey from the inward to the outward, from the determined to the unexpected, and from the enclosed spaces of the mind, to a wider perception of the world. Whatever the protagonist will do with his future, wether he will stay at this place that has given him a second chance or not, he is changed for life.
The title of the film is taken from an iranian poem, and when it is recited in one scene in the darkness of a cave, one can feel all the beauty that surrounds us, even if we are not always able to appreciate it.
Life needs living says this film, almost shouts it in your face, but with such warmth of breath, that you go with it. Along with the estranged character the viewer starts to rediscover the world, and out of the endless flow of time, compassion starts to arise - compassion for the flowers, the trees, the earth, and the people, with all their beauty and shortcomings.
The worst disease is death says a character in the film, when we`ll have to leave this earth. One day, the wind will carry us away.