At times the picture feels like an affectionate parody of recent Iranian films.
Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine(بوی کافور، عطر یاس)
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Iran · 2000
1h 33m
Director Bahman Farmanara
Starring Bahman Farmanara, Parivash Nazarieh, Reza Kianian, Roya Nownahali
Genre Drama
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Death surrounds Bahman, a director who hasn't made a film in 24 years, who is working on a documentary on Iranian burial practices. On the anniversary of his wife's death, he discovers that someone has been buried in his plot next to his wife. His heart disease is flaring up. Is death all that's left?
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The New York Times by A.O. Scott
Perhaps it's the difference in culture, but the thoughtfulness in Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine shows that its creator isn't letting himself or his audience off the hook.
Philadelphia Inquirer by Carrie Rickey
Boasts rich texture, sly vision and rueful humor.
Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
This understated Iranian drama affirms life as vigorously as it provokes thought.
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
The heavy subject is tempered with gentle humor.
New Times (L.A.) by Jean Oppenheimer
Farmanara, the actor, brings a real poignancy to the role and, thus, to the story that seems, more than anything, the tale of a man coming to terms with his life.
Farmanara bears his soul, and his honesty permeates this work as strongly as the smell of camphor.
TV Guide Magazine by Steve Simels
Glacially slow going.
Deadly dull.
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