The Washington Post, December 14th, 2007
When it was published in 2003, "The Kite Runner" brought the life and culture of Afghanistan to an America largely wary of the country with which it had gone to war just two years before. Now, Khaled Hosseini's best-selling novel has been given the screen adaptation it richly deserves. Gorgeously filmed in Northern California and China (which stands in for Afghanistan), "The Kite Runner" keeps things simple and elegant. After a brief opening sequence in modern-day California, the film jumps back in time to 1970s Kabul, when the country was in the throes of a communist revolution and an impendi...
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