From Iranian writer-director Majid Majidi (Children of Heaven) comes this profound fable of a film focused on Youssef (Parvis Parastui), a university professor blinded at the age of eight. When a risky procedure miraculously restores his sight, his life of teaching and relying on the kindness of others--especially his dutiful, loving wife (Roya Taymourian)--is replaced by egoism and the desire to devour new sights, sensations, and temptations with wanton abandon. "Majidi presents us with a series of glistening tone poems. He uses Youssef's transplanted corneas as surrogate cameras, showing us what everyday objects might look like when vividly, brutally revealed to a newborn eye" (Julia Wallace, Village Voice).

Majid Majidi---Iran---2005---96 mins.