Here is mysterious business. The Wind Will Carry Us is the new film from Abbas Kiarostami, director of Where Is The Friend's House and Taste Of Cherry. Viewers must come prepared to work.

The film concerns an 'engineer' (Behzad Dourani) who comes with a camera crew to the tiny Kurdish village of Siah Dareh. The Wind Will Carry Us opens with these men driving to the village with the help of obscure directions. Their car is a speck in the middle of the eye-popping Iranian landscape, and their role as outsiders is established at once.
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Although Hollywood might say otherwise, film should be a medium in which a director shares his or her unique vision and technique, even if - or perhaps especially if - it differs from the mainstream.

 Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami does exactly that with The Wind Will Carry Us, playing tonight at the Garneau Theatre. But he also asks that the audience hold up its end of the bargain, and it remains to be seen how many filmgoers are willing and able to do that.
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