SummaryMohsen Makhmalbaf's film is based on his own experience as a young Islamic radical in 1974 when he attemped to stab a policeman and landed himself in prison for the act. Five years after his release from prison, the same policeman, then unemployed turned up to audition for one of Makhmalbaf's films. Makhmalbaf and the policeman each play themse... Read More
Directed By:Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Written By:Mohsen Makhmalbaf
A Moment of Innocence
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Generally Favorable
70
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
78% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
11% Mixed
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Turns into something like a screwball farce, an intimate, self-aware one.
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Normal ideas of truth, illusion, and representation are sent into the meat grinder, and the result is consistently disarming and beautiful.
80
Finds the impassioned Makhmalbaf in a more contemplative, even whimsical, mood than usual.
80
Almost forbiddingly austere.
80
A meditation-brilliant, humorous, and moving-on history and memory.
50
Some wonderful films have come out of Iran in the past few years, but A Moment of Innocence, by highly regarded director Mohsen Makhmalbaf, is too smug and too self-indulgent to count as one of them.
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Muddled and endless.
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