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Kandahar: The Movie.

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| December 24, 2001 | Ansen, David | COPYRIGHT 2001 Newsweek, Inc. All rights reserved. Any reuse, distribution or alteration without express written permission of Newsweek is prohibited. For permission: www.newsweek.com. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

During the Taliban's rule in Afghanistan, images were the enemy. Photographs and paintings were considered impure. Needless to say, no movies were allowed to be made. But in 1999 acclaimed Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf shot the urgent, eye-opening film "Kandahar" inside Afghanistan's borders despite death threats. No professional actors were used, and much of the film was improvised. Most members of the cast had never seen a movie. The main character, whose real story inspired the film, is an Afghan-raised Canadian journalist desperate to reach her sister in Kandahar before she kills herself. The movie depicts her odyssey across a physically and morally blighted land.

Makhmalbaf shows us a country that, in his words, "has been vaccinated against ...

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