Although there’s a strenuous, unappealing passage prior to the final, wonderful shot, Iranian writer-director Majid Majidi’s Rang-e khoda—literally, The Color of God—is an affecting and gorgeous piece of work. Essentially, it is about the strained relationship between a widower, Hashem, and his eight-year-old son, Mohammad, who is blind and whom his father sees as obstructing […]
Daily Archives: June 14, 2010
Dark, depressing, ugly, lugubrious, possibly pathological film, from writer-director Phil Alden Robinson, based on the 1982 Shoeless Joe by Canadian novelist W. P. Kinsella, Field of Dreams is a times-crossing sports fantasy that is plagued by a surfeit of father figures, only one of whom, played by James Earl Jones, sparks the film the least […]