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The Patience Stone

Syngué Sabour (The Patience Stone) (aka Syngué sabour, pierre de patience)

2012

Atiq Rahimi

Golshifteh Farahani, Hamid Djavadan, Massi Mrowat, Hassina Burgan ...

6.8

1,584

Drama Somewhere, in Afghanistan or elsewhere, in a country torn apart by a war... A young woman in her thirties watches over her older husband in a decrepit room. He is reduced to the state of a vegetable because of a bullet in the neck. Not only is he abandoned by his companions of the Jihad, but also by his brothers. One day, the woman decides to tell the truth to him about her feelings about their relationship to her silent husband. She ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Alissa Simon Variety	"Sensual and horrifying, 'The Patience Stone' plays like a mesmerizing, modern take on the tales of Scheherazade and a parable on the suffering of Afghan women."	POS
United States	Neil Young The Hollywood Reporter	"A luminous central performance from Golshifteh Farahani distinguishes an ambitious if somewhat monotonously wordy adaptation of a prize-winning best-seller."	NEU
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"Life and death circle each other restlessly and then furiously in the Afghan-set movie 'The Patience Stone'."	POS
United States	Farran Smith Nehme New York Post	"'The Patience Stone' is essentially a monologue, and Atiq Rahimi (...) doesn't have what it takes to make the story more dynamic. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Joe Neumaier New York Daily News	"Golshifteh Farahani gives a remarkable, dangerous, symbolic performance (...) A film, that dares us to listen. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	POS

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