Majid Majidi's films

Recently I watched a part of Majid Majidi's 'Children of Heaven'. (In the original Persian version, the film is titled Bacheha-Ye aseman.) Anyone who has watched films by the gifted Iranian director, would understand what it means to be touched by films. No exaggerated emotions, no special effects. Above all, no lies and no over-idealism. Majidi's films are about life as it is. Yet it is no documentary. It is art.

I missed the first part of the film. I later read up on Majidi's films and have become a fan. I plan to watch more Majidi films in the near future. Such perfection of cinema as art, I have seen only in a few others. Certainly Satyajit Ray was one among them. And Charlie Chaplin, who was the ultimate master in presenting pathos with humour and wit.