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The Kite Runner [2007] starring: Khalid Abdalla, Atossa Leoni, Shaun Toub directed by: Marc Forster List Price: £19.99 Childrens Toy Shop Price: £6.48 You Save: £13.51 (68%)Prices subject to change. |
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over Binding: DVD EAN: 5051188153533 Format: PAL Label: Paramount Home Entertainment Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Paramount Home Entertainment Region Code: 2 Release Date: June 02, 2008 Running Time: 122 minutes Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment Theatrical Release Date: 2007 Sales Rank: 38 Accessories: Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk review: Like the bestselling book upon which it's based, The Kite Runner will haunt the viewer long after the film is over. A tale of childhood betrayal, innocence, harsh reality, and dreamy memory, The Kite Runner faces good and evil--and the path between them, though often blurry and sorrowfully relative. Director Marc Forster (Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland) presents a painterly vision of Afghanistan before the Soviet tanks, before the Taliban--lush, verdant, fertile--in its landscape and in its people and their history and hopes. The story follows two young boys' friendship, tested beyond endurance, and the haunting of their adult selves by what happened in their youth--and what horrors befall their country in the meantime. The performances of the two boys--Zekeria Ebrahimi (Amir) and Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada (Hassan)--are the film's strongest, unforced and gently evocative. The penance paid by their adult selves is foreshadowed, but never predictable--and the metaphor of innocence lost, a common theme in Forster's work, keeps the film, like the title kites, truly aloft. --A.T. Hurley Customer Reviews
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 Rating: - Love those foreign films...Well done, heart-warming story, excellent actors, interesting culture and location/scenery - I highly recommend it. Rating:  - DisappointedOne of those films you think you should see because it's been raved about. I found it slightly dull and not much happens most of the time. Rating:  - Read the bookRarely does a film adaptation of a book manage to do justice to the original, and I have to say this is no exception. Whilst magnificently cast the film is too brief, goes at too quick a pace and glosses over key moments that the book expresses so eloquently. A prime example of this is Amir's final confrontation with long time tormentor Assef which has been reduced here to little more than a smash and grab yarn. 'Kite runner' is a very powerful tale of friendship, betrayal,remorse and redemption but you will miss out on many colourful details without reading the book. The film is agreeable and faithful in character, but not great. Rating: - Not what I had hoped for.I watch lots of films from Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran and after reading the fantastic book I had high hopes for the film. Some parts - probably the bits set in Afghanistan were good, but on the whole I found the film unsatisfying. Rushed and even confusing if you hadn't read the book. Prime example - after he had been beaten up and was in the hospital, the tension created in the book when it seemed everyone may catch up with him was unbearable, but ommitted from the film! A wasted opportunity. Please please don't ruin Thousand Splendid Suns by making it into a film!!! Rating:  - Touching, compelling and deeply uncomfortable filmI cannot comment on how the book has been translated into film, as I've not read the book. On its own terms, the film is a strange but compelling mix - some parts are painful to watch, while others make you smile. The acting is very good. Overall, well worth watching. |
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