"Turtles Can Fly:" I have only superlatives for this film, which I

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resisted because the title made it sound like a touchy-feely-Robert Redford/Sundance film.
I couldn't have been more wrong.
This is one of the most beautiful and gut-wrenching films I have ever seen. It's been only a couple of hours since it ended and I'm still in... shock.
A very young girl, her brother, and a young baby have been forced from their Kurdish village immediately before the American invasion: their parents brutally were murdered.
They arrive in an Iraqi Muslim town where many inhabitants, refugees, live in tents and where the only link to the outside world is television. A young boy, having mastered the skills to hookup satellites, makes a living installing them: he is drawn to the three refugees because of the beauty of the young girl.
He also employs the young children as mine field clearers, selling the mines back to the army.
This harrowing business soon pits him against the young girl's brother who it is said can foresee the future.
Skillfully directed to bring out the most tension in the many tense scenes, the film manages to show the humanity and strength of the human spirit even in the most dangerous of places.
There is even real humor within the deep pathos.
The young actors, even the toddler, are exceptional.
You will never forget them.
Thanks, dave c, it is better than you said.

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Topic - "Turtles Can Fly:" I have only superlatives for this film, which I - tinear 14:37:24 11/03/06 (5)

readers prepare yourselves - PhilJ 14:43:57 11/03/06 (4)

Seldom does art also have great political meaning, like "Germinal," - tinear 18:50:40 11/03/06 (0)

everyoe interested in films enough to come here should see it - dave c 16:01:25 11/03/06 (2)

Yes, SPOILER WARNING) Read cautiously if you have not sen the film. - dave c 19:30:08 11/03/06 (0)

Dave, you should have put in a SPOILER warning. Not just a "very good" film: it is - tinear 18:45:48 11/03/06 (0)

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