A Moment of Innocence

Infobox Film
name = A Moment of Innocence
director = Mohsen Makhmalbaf
producer = Abolfazi Alagheband
writer = Mohsen Makhmalbaf
starring = Mirhadi Tayebi
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Ali Bakhsi
cinematography = Mahmoud Kalari
editing = Mohsen Makhmalbaf
released = August 13, 1996
runtime = 78 min.
country = Iran/France
language = Persian
imdb_id = 0117214

"A Moment of Innocence" ( _fa. Nun va Goldoon) — also known as "Bread and Flower"cite web
url = http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117214/
title = Internet Movie Database
accessdate=2008-06-06
date =
author =
publisher =] , "Bread and Flower Pot", and "The Bread and the Vase"cite web
url = http://www.panix.com/~dangelo/col14.html
title = The Man Who Viewed Too Much
accessdate=2008-06-06
date = 1997-07-07
author = Mike D'Angelo
publisher =] — is a 1996 film directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf.

Film synopsis

The film is a semi-autobiographical account of Makmahlbaf's experience as a teenager when, as a seventeen-year-old, he stabbed a policeman at a protest rally and was jailed.

Two decades later, Makhmalbaf made the decision to track down the policeman whom he had injured in an attempt to make amends. "A Moment of Innocence" is a dramatization of that real event.

Critical reaction

Although the film was banned in Iran, Western critics were very positive toward the film. Mike D'Angelo called "A Moment of Innocence" "a dizzying hybrid of autobiography, documentary, and mythology,... [a] bold [] ...testament to our innate decency and capacity for love," and said that it "ends with the greatest final freeze-frame since "The 400 Blows" -- maybe the greatest final freeze-frame evercite web
url = http://www.panix.com/~dangelo/col14.html
title = The Man Who Viewed Too Much
accessdate=2008-06-06
date = 1997-07-07
author = Mike D'Angelo
publisher =] ." Stewart Klawans of "The Nation" said readers should contact him immediately "if [they] see another film with so urgent and complete an image of people's hurts, fears, needs and dreamscite web
url = http://www.thenation.com/doc/19991129/klawans/2
title = Innocents Abroad
accessdate=2008-06-06
date = 1999-11-11
author = Stewart Klawans
publisher = The Nation] ." One of the few negative critical reactions came from Mick Lasalle of the "San Francisco Chronicle", who called the film "grindingly dull," and "muddled and endless" and implied that Makhmalbaf's filmmaking was "self-indulgent, meandering, pointless and irritatingcite web
url = http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2000/03/10/DD100449.DTL
title = Everything Lost in the Translation
accessdate=2008-06-06
date = 2000-03-10
author = Mick Lasalle
publisher = San Francisco Chronicle] ."

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*imdb title|0117214|A Moment of Innocence