Blu-ray Release: The Wind Will Carry Us

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Laurence
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Blu-ray Release Date: May 13, 2025
Price: Blu-ray $27.99
Studio: Criterion Collection

The mysteries of everyday life come into astonishing focus in one of Abbas Kiarostami’s (Certified Copy) greatest cinematic achievements. 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 (Behzad Dorani) 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.

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

  • 4K restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
  • 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
  • Trailer
  • New English subtitle translation
  • PLUS: An essay by poet and novelist Kaveh Akbar
Buy or Rent The Wind Will Carry Us

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About Laurence

Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.