The Wind Will Carry Us

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  • The Wind Will Carry Us -- Slow-moving Iranian drama about an engineer (Behzad Dourani) and his crew who travel to a remote Kurdistan village hoping to clandestinely film a macabre mourning rite when a sick, elderly woman dies. Despite its sweeping visual grandeur and curious characters, writer-director Abbas Kiarostami's metaphoric film about life and death requires a serious commitment of attention on the part of the viewer to be appreciated. Subtitles. Mature themes. The U.S. Catholic Conference classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. Not rated by the Motion Picture Association of America. 2000 (New Yorker Films)




    Movies have been evaluated by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishop's Office for Film and Broadcasting according to artistic merit and moral suitability. The reviews include the USCCB rating, the Motion Picture Association of America rating, and a brief synopsis of the movie.

    The classifications are as follows:

    • A-I -- general patronage;
    • A-II -- adults and adolescents;
    • A-III -- adults;
    • A-IV**
    • L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. L replaces the previous classification, A-IV.
    • O -- morally offensive.
    ** Discontinued classification. All archived movies that were originally in the A-IV category are now classified as L.
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