The Washington Post, May 23rd, 2003
KURDISH FILMMAKER Bahman Ghobadi's haunting new film, like his acclaimed 2000 "A Time for Drunken Horses," is set in the hardscrabble countryside of Kurdistan, a geopolitical designation for land straddling Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Syria and the former Soviet Union. Unlike that powerful drama of a determined but often victimized people, "Marooned in Iraq" is something of a comedy. Given its pedigree, however, it's not surprising that it's more tragicomedy than yukfest. It starts out kooky enough, with aging Kurdish folk singer Mirza (Shahab Ebrahimi) enlisting the aid of his bickering musician sons...
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