Seattle Times
Reviewed by: Ted Fry
The primal tranquillity of shifting sands across the Iranian and Tunisian desert is no mere backdrop to this hypnotic fable of spiritual wisdom. The silken dunes that cocoon, propel or transform the humans and animals crossing their rippled lines are elemental characters with as much significance as the mystical parable they […]
Los Angeles Times
Reviewed by: Sheri Linden
Like strange desert creatures, a little girl and her blind grandfather emerge from storm-shifted sands, dust themselves off and set out on a journey with no map or timetable in “Bab’Aziz: The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul,” a film steeped in Sufi mysticism and as transcendent as that opening sequence. […]
A visual poem of incomparable beauty, this masterpiece from director Nacer Khemir (Wanderers of the Desert) begins with the story of a blind dervish named Bab’Aziz and his spirited granddaughter, Ishtar. Together they wander the desert in search of a great reunion of dervishes that takes place just once every thirty years. With […]
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Film Threat
Reviewed by: Phil Hall
Tunisian filmmaker Nacer Khemir spins an exquisite, mystical tone poem of a film with “Bab’Aziz - The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul.”
Bab’Aziz is a blind old man who is traveling by foot across a desert with his granddaughter Ishtar (yes, Ishtar – the kid’s parents were obviously Elaine May fans). They […]
NEW YORK TIMES
Reviewed by Matt Zoller Seitz
The third feature by the Tunisian filmmaker and poet Nacer Khemir is a structurally audacious fairy tale that imparts moral lessons and shows how narratives reflect and shape life.
The movie’s framing story follows the elderly Bab’Aziz (Parviz Shahinkhou) and his young granddaughter (Maryam Hamid) as they travel through the […]
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New York Post
Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
“Soul Searching Can Be Beautiful”
WELCOME to what the press notes for “Bab’Aziz: The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul” call “the enchanting and ever-shifting sandscapes of Tunisia and Iran.”
There we find a blind old man, Bab’Aziz, and his young granddaughter - “my little angel” - Ishtar.
They have been hiking for days […]
