Cert PG
81 mins
BBFC advice: Potential imitable behaviour
Mark Cousins' obviously didn't intend to set me a personal challenge when he made Story Of Children And Film earlier this year.
However, because his movie had me so engrossed, I am now keen to see every picture from which he took clips.
As luck would have it, one of them, Willow And Wind, has been re-released in the UK this year.
Mohammad-Ali Talebi's 14-year-old film, set in Iran, is a rather splendid study of childhood angst.
Its premise is rather unpromising, beginning with a young boy's first day at school when he becomes distracted by the rain he has never seen at his previous home in the desert.
He becomes friends with a young boy who has been excluded because he has broken a window with a football. He will not be allowed back until he replaces it.
But his father has no time nor money, so he has to find the cash, fetch the window himself and fix it.
This is not as easy as it sounds. This is rural Iran and the glazier lives in a village a few miles away and a storm is brewing.
It may seem a strange concept for a movie but Talebi struck a chord with me because he so cleverly tuned into a child's thought patterns.
In doing so, he evoked memories which had been long shut away.
Laughs: none
Jumps: none
Vomit: none
Nudity: none
Overall rating: 7.5/10