Kandahar (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 2001)
The Good: stunning imagery (pairs of wooden legs floating down from the sky on parachutes, groups of multicolored burqas moving across the desert). The Bad: some clunky poetry (in English), and (yes-even-semi-documentaries-from-Iran-can-suffer-from) terrible acting. And I’m not asking for Glenn Close with a kitchen knife, but why do many Iranian movies just stop dead in their tracks? B-
