The process is all too artificial, ultimately doing a disservice to those whose lives it attempts to reflect.

| Feb 25, 2021

With the action largely confined to a tiny apartment surrounded by the chaos of war, the woman finds her voice and a sudden burst of freedom...

| Jun 18, 2020

Not only an emotionally immersive cultural experience, The Patience Stone packs an elegant emotional punch that just assails you like a bullet to the neck.

| Nov 27, 2019

Rahimi proposes a "what if" scenario that unfortunately gets repetitively tiresome, even if its locale grants it a certain compelling fervor.

| Aug 22, 2019

If you listen, watch, and submit to the film's admittedly glacial pace, you'll be rewarded with a wonderful, soul-stirring filmic experience.

| Original Score: 7.9/10 | Apr 11, 2019

A beautiful and haunting Afghan film about love, devotion, and a woman's 'duty'; a remarkable feminist story from the unlikeliest place on the planet.

| Mar 11, 2014

As it progresses the woman's story is paralleled with several religious myths and it builds to a conclusion that is terrifying, far-fetched and powerfully-realised. The final moments resonate with a mythic quality.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 11, 2013

It's Rahimi's courage as both writer and director that makes this intense and perceptive picture so unflinchingly compelling.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2013

A real one-off.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2013

By turns mysterious, moving, shocking and explicit - and very different from the kind of opaque and quietist cinema we might expect.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 5, 2013

A beguiling and perplexing piece of conceptual slow cinema from Iranian director Atiq Rahimi.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 5, 2013

Another absorbing lead performance from Golshifteh Farahani in Atiq Rahimi's The Patience Stone

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 3, 2013

In a war-raved city, a woman sits and talks to her husband. He doesn't say much, since he's been shot and he's in a coma.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 2, 2013

It requires a leap of faith, but this handsome-looking film offers a disarming combination of insight, compassion and provocation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 2, 2013

Co-writer Jean-Claude Carrire was Buuel's screenwriter and this stark story of a life at odds with a society's laws bears the hallmarks of his earlier work.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 1, 2013

Exploitational eyes aside, "Patience Stone" can be pretty mesmerizing nonetheless, and it does anything but let the male breed off easy.

| Nov 27, 2013

The film loses the palpable tension it manages to set up in the beginning

| Nov 4, 2013

There are surprising developments and revelations along the way, and they all eventually dovetail into a beautiful conclusion.

| Original Score: A | Oct 22, 2013

This visually static and dramatically interior film by Atiq Rahimi, adapted from his novel, is largely a play about two people.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 14, 2013

Directed by Atiq Rahimi and based on his novel, "The Patience Stone" speaks for all oppressed women, for all oppressed people for that matter.

| Original Score: A | Oct 10, 2013