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The Willow Tree (Beed-e majnoon)

Rating:No Rating
Genre:Drama
Release Date:August 3, 2007
Running time:96 minutes
Cast:Parviz Parastui, Roya Taymourian, Afarin Obeisi, Mohammad Amir Naji, Melika Eslafi
Director:Majid Majidi
Producer:Seyyed Saeed Seyedzadeh
Writer:Majid Majidi
Distributor:New Yorker Films

Description: Blind since childhood, Youssef has a devoted wife, loving daughter, and successful university career, but his affliction fills him with secret torment. As if in answer to his prayers, a Paris clinic restores his sight - a miracle that is double-edged. Although this new world of sight and color floods Youssef with ecstasy, it also plunges him into a labyrinth of confusions and temptations. A pretty student begins to eclipse his dowdy, previously invisible wife. In one disturbing scene, he silently watches a subway pickpocket, who fixes him with a look of withering complicity. Eager to claim the lost life he feels he is owed but unable to take the next step, Youssef is inflamed with possibility and paralyzed with egoism.

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