"Whatever isn't conveyed about Frontier Blues by its title is dealt with in the film's 30 minutes. Director Babak Jalali exhibits assured command in crafting his portrait of four citizens of the Northern Iranian province of Golestan, interconnecting the stories of his protagonists in ways that never feel contrived or excessively strain to underline their significance. Rather, he employs fixed-camera shots and the sporadic strain of melancholy str...
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"Whatever isn't conveyed about Frontier Blues by its title is dealt with in the film's 30 minutes. Director Babak Jalali exhibits assured command in crafting his portrait of four citizens of the Northern Iranian province of Golestan, interconnecting the stories of his protagonists in ways that never feel contrived or excessively strain to underline their significance. Rather, he employs fixed-camera shots and the sporadic strain of melancholy strings to aesthetically emphasize what his sparsely scripted tale depicts—namely, that life in this remote region of the world (which borders Turkmenistan, and is the director's birthplace) breeds loneliness and longing, often created by loss."
Quoting a review by Nick Schager in Slant Magazine.
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