The Patience Stone

COMING SOON: Atiq Rahimi's The Patience Stone (Afghanistan, 2012) - Sensual and horrifying, "The Patience Stone" plays like a mesmerizing, modern take on the tales of Scheherazade and a parable on the suffering of Afghan women. Afghanistan-born, France-based helmer Atiq Rahimi adapts his own novel set in a Muslim country torn apart by war, where a beautiful woman in her 30s cares for her comatose husband, relieving her burden by confessing her frustrations, dreams and desires. Featuring a tour-de-force performance by exiled Iranian thesp Golshifteh Farahani ("About Elly"), Eastern rhythms and Euro production polish, this opened-up chamber drama should engage niche arthouse audiences in the West without testing their forbearance. / Golshifteh Farahani gives a memorable and moving performance in Atiq Rahimi’s poetic and politically charged allegory The Patience Stone (Syngué Sabour), as a woman in an unnamed, war-torn, Middle Eastern country, who delivers a powerful and emotionally charged monologue to her comatose husband. 2012TOR.