Wind Will Carry Us Blu-ray

'The Wind Will Carry Us' Director: Abbas Kiarostami (1999) Criterion Collection Blu-ray | 4K restoration | Farsi w/ English subtitles

A slyly self-reflexive commentary on the director’s own artistic practice, The Wind Will Carry Us unfolds with unhurried majesty as it follows an undercover documentarian whose assignment to cover a small village’s funeral rites is continually frustrated by an elderly woman’s refusal to die. Along the way, though, he forges surprising, unsettling, and enlightening connections with those he meets.

Suffused with Kiarostami’s love for people, poetry, and the arid beauty of rural Iran, this meditative masterpiece reflects upon the boundaries between intimacy and alienation, tradition and modernity, with the utmost grace.

Special features include:
- A Week with Kiarostami (1999), a documentary by Yuji Mohara on the making of the film
- Interview from 2002 with director Abbas Kiarostami
- New video essay presenting Kiarostami’s poetry narrated by Massoumeh Lahiji, a longtime translator and creative collaborator of the director’s
- Essay by poet and novelist Kaveh Akbar