An introduction to the films in just 100 words.
Baran | 2001
Baran | 2001
An Iranian film directed by Majidi Majid.
Lateef, a 17 year old boy, works as a cook in a construction site. Najif, an afghan refugee, loses his leg in an accident while working in the site. Najif’ daughter Baran, disguises as a boy ( Rehmat ) and replaces him in the work. Lateef comes to know that Rehmat is a girl and falls in a love-kind of situation. Did his love succeed?
The plight of refugees is touched in a distant manner. How far someone can go for the sake of love? This film can be seen even without sub-titles.
Easy Rider | 1969
Road movie, set in 1960’s USA. Directed by Dennis Hopper.
Wyatt and Billy- two hippees travel from LA to New Orleans for Mardi Gras on their bikes. The film is a musical-documentary travelogue and their experiences. On their way they encounter nomadic-hip family, stage troupe who works for food, drunken activist, rednecks who hate hips, institutionalized love from the prostitutes.
Finally they are killed by rednecks, who are feared by the “freedom” in the hippee culture.
Drugs, acid trip, great music, songs, unique style of editing, commendable acting by Fonda, Hopper and Jack Nicholson- all make this film a re-watchable.
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