Where Is the Friend's House? (1987) poster
1987 · drama

Where Is the Friend's House?

Directed by Abbas Kiarostami1h 23m1987
ElsewhereIMDb8.122kRT100%TMDB7.9431
  • slow-burn
  • tender
  • signature
  • intimate
Movie DNA

Warm, slow-burn, gentle drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.

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An 8-year-old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.

Our read · Where Is the Friend's House? (1987) reads as a warm, slow-burn, grounded drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.

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You want a gentle Iranian child's quest where kindness matters more than plot.

ends warmyou’ll feel glowing aftermeditativegrips from the openattention 4/5breezes bysubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightSlow village pacing and subtitles will feel like homework tonight.

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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