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Where Is The Friend’s House? (1987 Foreign Film)

Published: Oct. 4, 2023, 6 a.m.

The seventh episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1987 features our foreign film pick, Abbas Kiarostami’s Where Is the Friend’s House?. Written and directed by Abbas Kiarostami and starring Babak Ahmadpour, Ahmed Ahmadpour and Khodabaksh Defai, Where Is the Friend’s House? is the first movie in Kiarostami’s acclaimed Koker trilogy.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Gemma Files in Eye Weekly, Jonathan Rosenbaum in the Chicago Reader (https://chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/where-is-my-friends-house/), and Dennis Schwartz in Ozus World Movie Reviews (https://dennisschwartzreviews.com/whereismyfriendshouse/).

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