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A Time For Drunken Horses Review: Closer to the neorealist, fable-like style of Jafar Panahi than the elliptical, experimental rhythms of Abbas Kiarostami, Bahman Ghobadi's feature debut establishes him as yet another vital voice to emerge from the Iranian New Wave. A Time for Drunken Horses has a plot that's as gut-wrenching as anything from De Sica (or, for that matter, Griffiths), but Ghobadi's unerring sense of technique -- lengthy, non-judgmental edits, documentary-style location shoots, the sparing use of close-ups -- resists sentimentality in favor of a more complex portrait of ordinary people doing whatever they have to do to survive. The director also coaxes raw, unflinching performances from his cast, especially his child actors, who confront the grimmest of situations as if they were everyday occurrences -- which, not coincidentally, is precisely the point of A Time for Drunken Horses. Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide

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