Frontier Blues -- Film Review

August 25, 2009 Intended to offer a droll portrait of eccentric characters living in the northern region of Iran next to the Turkmenistan border, Babak Jalali's "Frontier Blues" will test the patience of audiences waiting for anything significant or even amusing to happen. The pic from Caspian Films is unlikely to attract much attention beyond a small element of the festival circuit. The fourth character is an aging fellow who keeps a commercial photographer engaged with staged examples of the local culture while complaining all the while about his wife who ran off 30 years earlier.

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