Iran (2005)
Starring: Parviz Shahinkhou, Maryam Hamid, Hossein Panahi
Awards: 2005 Crystal Simorgh - Fajr Film Festival; 2006 Golden Dagger - Muscat Film Festival
Bab'Aziz is an amazing story that begins in the desert with a blind dervish and his grand daughter. This movie follows their journey as they head towards their destination, a great reunion, with nothing but faith to guide them. On the journey they meet many other dervishes who are also headed the same direction. Some are misguided and without faith can not find the way, others are lost and seeking answers, and one is on his way to find the love of his life whose path had split from his own. As these dervishes come and go, taking their own paths to the reunion, Ishtar's grandfather tells her a story of the prince who gave up his worldly status to contemplate his soul. Through the movie I wondered if that prince was her grandfather himself, but this was never made clear to me.
There are a few things about this movie that I really liked. The scenery was gorgeous. This movie was filmed in both Iran and Tunisia and it incorporates both dues of sand with a satin appearance as well as scorching desert with mountains off in the distance. For the scenery and the cinematography this movie was worth watching. It also has a very heavy undertone of Islamic teaching and words wise enough that I believe many of the lines and stories in this movie might have come from Sufi's. Bab'Aziz does orient towards Islam, but the wisdom hidden in the movie make it a wonderful movie for almost anyone with an open mind. There is no action in this movie, there are no amazing special effects, but there is a beautiful journey and an amazing story.
Quote: He who has faith will never get lost
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