wonderful and touching!

Rating: Null/10 (26 December 1999)

Being American born of Persian ancestry, I've always tried to seek out Persian cinema, and had heard about Children of Heaven from various family members. I finally was able to see it tonight and am terribly pleased I did. I loved seeing Ali's and Zahrah's relationship with each other...as someone commented here, it is touching without being sentimental. Majidi didn't set out to make sentimental film - it is straightforward in its approach even dealing with the poor section that Zahrah and Ali live in.
I must add also I'm always happy to see a movie that doesn't show Iran in a fundamentalist/terrorist light.
Another movie if you enjoyed this one, is Panahi's The White Balloon which also is about a child's plight (this time involving goldfish).