Lida Soltan A car slowly traverses a winding road. Someone in the car leans out to ask for directions. A young boy frets over his schoolwork. Two friends walk through a gorgeous river grove. An old woman lies on her deathbed, attended to by family and neighbors.
People talk, people share, people wait.
Through it all, a camera stands discreetly in the distance, watching. These narrative moments are familiar tropes in the work of Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. His movies, which take place almost exclusively in his country's mountain villages, offer small glimpses of people's lives and yet open up the vast panorama of the human condition. The Wind Will Carry Us , Kiarostami's latest film, is another subtle meditation on these themes. Not quite sure of where they're going, they meet a young boy who gives them directions.