Title: Beautiful, universal
Product review: Majid Majidi has a great facility with working with child actors and finding cinematographic details that reveal the beauty of an often cruel world in a way reminiscent of the best of Francois Truffault. This story is as revealing as his "The Color of Paradise" about family life and the constant struggles of the poor in his Persian home. The story is simple and I expected it to play on the "lost red shoes" fairy tales of Hans Christian Anderson but it did not turn into that kind of a journey in an obvious way. As with other Majidi films, we see the daily struggle and the gross inequities wrapped in a simple beauty that he skillfully captures and brings to life in this entertaining parable in which even the ultimate victory is a pyrrhic victory.
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