Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war. Said falls in with a group of old men looking for their bombed-out village; he offers to guide them, and takes as his wife Halaleh, the clan's lone woman, a widow with a young son. Reeboir attaches himself to a dozen pre-teen boys weighed down by contraband they carry across the border; they're mules, always on the move. Said and Reeboir try to teach as their potential students keep walking. Danger is close; armed soldiers patrol the skies, the roads, and the border. Is there a role for a teacher? Is there hope?
Blackboards has generally received positive reviews.
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Review of Blackboards (2000)
By Wesley Morris (1,967) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 17 Jan 2003
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By Michael Rechtshaffen (1,086) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 29 May 2001
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By Carla Meyer (580) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 24 Jan 2003
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Blackboards was released in 2000 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 39 reviews, giving Blackboards (2000) an average rating of 68%.
Overall, cinema-goers and film critics broadly agree on the merits of the movie, with critics giving it an average score of 71% and users giving an average score of 73%.
With a score of 68%, Blackboards is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2000, which stands at 58%.
Other movies from 2000 with similar scores include films like Pay It Forward, The Isle and Chopper.
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