Downpour

1972 [FA]

Action / Comedy / Drama / Romance

14
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 1190 1.2K

Plot summary

When he takes a job as a schoolteacher in a new neighborhood, the hapless intellectual Mr. Hekmati finds that he is a fish out of water.

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1.16 GB
988*720
Fa 2.0
NR
Subtitles fa  
23.976 fps
2 hr 10 min
Seeds 1
2.16 GB
1472*1072
Fa 2.0
NR
Subtitles fa  
23.976 fps
2 hr 10 min
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ebram_golhashem 7 / 10

A Great Romance but Regular Drama!!!

I should call this movie a romantic movie, a romance between two people with nice people around them. We have no Romeo And Juliette in this film. Everyone is nice, all the people of the city are happy, there is only a tragedy and its competitive love. The children made this film like a children movie and let me tell you that school is such a important feature for representing the lovers and their romance. Parviz Fannizadeh is my favorite Iranian actor and he played his role nicely attractive. He won the best leading role of the year from the main film festival of Iran before the Islamic Revolution, Sepas Film Festival. The film is Bahrain Beyzayi's second cinematic experience and it was really good and critically acclaimed, even tho it wasn't a successful commercially. It has so many scenes that I didn't like and I prefer to remove from the script but it's Beyzayi and his special scenarios. Even tho I think that it was a good film generally... .
Reviewed by hof-4 6 / 10

Whimsical comedy/drama

As the movie begins, Mr Hekmati is clumsily completing the move of his personal belongings (which include absurdly large family photos) to his new modest quarters. He is a schoolteacher and has been assigned to the local school. He looks like an intellectual out of a Godard movie including thick frame carey glasses. He sticks out in the town like a sore thumb and arouses the curiosity of his new neighbors.For the rest of the movie we are witnesses to his uneasy interaction with his neighbors and with the principal and colleagues at school. They (as Mr Hekmati) are not sure about the reasons for his transfer. His students are unruly at the beginning but mutual confidence develops after a while. He becomes involved with Atieh, the sister of one of his pupils. Atieh struggles to care for her old and ailing mother and insure an education for her brother. To complicate things, she suffers the attentions of a local tough, a big man in town.This is one of the movies that started the torrent that made Iran a powerhouse of world cinema. However, it has little to do with the subjects and feelings in the works of later directors like Kiarostami, Panahi or Makhmalbaf. Downpour evokes various genres such as American romantic comedies (with a touch of screwball), Italian neorealist movies but especially the quirky output of the Czechoslovak New Wave.This work had a troubled history. The negative and all copies were seized in 1979 by state authorities and never heard of again, probably destroyed or lost in some obscure archive. Fortunately, the director kept a positive and the copy we stream is an excellent restoration by the World Cinema Project of Martin Scorses's The Film Foundation.It is difficult to find fault with this film. Script (by the director) is witty and acting and cinematography are excellent . Perhaps the subject matter is not enough to justify a length of more than two hours.
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