This is an unusual film of exceptional values--75 minutes long in color, with hardly any spoken dialogs. I saw this Iranian film in Farsi without English subtitles at the Early Iranian cinema retrospective on-going International Film Festival of Kerala, India. That I was watching a print without subtitles did not make a difference as there were very few lines of spoken dialogs. 　　This is a very accessible film for any audience to enjoy--its story and values are not merely Iranian, it's universal. 　　The film is set in rural Iran that had not tasted petro-dollar prosperity. The setting is on fringes of desert land, where water is scarce, rainfall scanty and hardly any blade of grass is green. Add to it wind and dust that buffets and whips man and animal and you can imagine plight of the people who live on the fringes of society. 　　The film is moving tale of a young teenager returning to his village with a goat--only to find his family and villagers have moved on to escape natures vagaries and that one old man remains. He gives the goat to him and goes in search of his family. Water is scarce and well water it treated with reverence and never wasted.

This is an unusual film of exceptional values--75 minutes long in color, with hardly any spoken dialogs. I saw this Iranian film in Farsi without English subtitles at the Early Iranian cinema retrospective on-going International Film Festival of Kerala, India. That I was watching a print without subtitles did not make a difference as there were very few lines of spoken dialogs. 　　This is a very accessible film for any audience to enjoy--its story and values are not merely Iranian, it's universal. 　　The film is set in rural Iran that had not tasted petro-dollar prosperity. The setting is on fringes of desert land, where water is scarce, rainfall scanty and hardly any blade of grass is green. Add to it wind and dust that buffets and whips man and animal and you can imagine plight of the people who live on the fringes of society. 　　The film is moving tale of a young teenager returning to his village with a goat--only to find his family and villagers have moved on to escape natures vagaries and that one old man remains. He gives the goat to him and goes in search of his family. Water is scarce and well water it treated with reverence and never wasted.

The film is set in a small town where two modest couples find themselves caught up in a game of life & death with a vicious gang after the discovery of a mysterious box buried long ago.

奥林匹娅年过七旬依然沉湎于作为舞者与歌手的昔日荣光，在人生即将走到尽头之际，她决定与年轻姑娘玛利亚开启一趟回忆之旅。导演科拉多·塞隆的长片处女作，邀请到意大利国宝级女星、威尼斯电影节终身成就奖得主斯特法尼娅·桑德雷莉出演，她完美演绎了一位外在热情、内心深邃的魅力女性。影片在调侃与抒情、忧郁与欢乐之间，捕捉到两个年龄和性格差异巨大的女人最深刻有趣的一面。明亮的南欧风光与经典怀旧歌曲串烧重建了曾经的文化黄金时代，谱写出一首献给生命尊严的赞美诗。

奥林匹娅年过七旬依然沉湎于作为舞者与歌手的昔日荣光，在人生即将走到尽头之际，她决定与年轻姑娘玛利亚开启一趟回忆之旅。导演科拉多·塞隆的长片处女作，邀请到意大利国宝级女星、威尼斯电影节终身成就奖得主斯特法尼娅·桑德雷莉出演，她完美演绎了一位外在热情、内心深邃的魅力女性。影片在调侃与抒情、忧郁与欢乐之间，捕捉到两个年龄和性格差异巨大的女人最深刻有趣的一面。明亮的南欧风光与经典怀旧歌曲串烧重建了曾经的文化黄金时代，谱写出一首献给生命尊严的赞美诗。

A moving meditation on industrialization, focusing on the eerily desolate Owens Valley in California, made arid by the diversion of water from there to the city of Los Angeles.

A moving meditation on industrialization, focusing on the eerily desolate Owens Valley in California, made arid by the diversion of water from there to the city of Los Angeles.

包理發與陳有福開設一所「精舞門」授舞中心, 因經營不善, 欠下數月租金, 被下令一星期內付清, 否則數回地方及充公所有東西抵數, 發與福沒法, 唯有向大耳窿借錢. 當倆人找到大耳窿時, 發覺他已被人殺死, 倆人恐怕被他人誤會, 即匆忙離去, 翌日即被人追殺, 發有一女友, 是一名秘聞記者, 因撞破一宗假錶交易, 被同一批人追殺.

包理發與陳有福開設一所「精舞門」授舞中心, 因經營不善, 欠下數月租金, 被下令一星期內付清, 否則數回地方及充公所有東西抵數, 發與福沒法, 唯有向大耳窿借錢. 當倆人找到大耳窿時, 發覺他已被人殺死, 倆人恐怕被他人誤會, 即匆忙離去, 翌日即被人追殺, 發有一女友, 是一名秘聞記者, 因撞破一宗假錶交易, 被同一批人追殺.

“男人爱上的是女人的美貌，女人爱上的是男人的权力，这才叫自然规律…”《一半是土，一半是水》作为一部实验性的家庭影像，讲述了中产阶级家庭脱离大家族去异地发展之后，人在陌生环境微妙的异化，从更具现代性的角度诠释了何为乡土。