Marooned in Iraq
2002, NR, 108 min.
Directed by Bahman Ghobadi, Starring Shahab Ebrahimi, Faegh Mohamadi, Allah-Morad Rashtian, Rojan Hosseini.
With the competing sounds of jet planes and boomboxes, Marooned in Iraq is a mordantly funny road movie by the director of A Time for Drunken Horses and Turtles Can Fly.
This article appears in November 26 • 2004.
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