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Article: A Captivating 'Kite Runner'
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- December 14, 2007
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When it was published in 2003, "The Kite Runner" brought the
life and culture of Afghanistan to an America largely wary of the
country with which it had gone to war just two years before. Now,
Khaled Hosseini's best-selling novel has been given the screen
adaptation it richly deserves. Gorgeously filmed in Northern
California and China (which stands in for Afghanistan), "The Kite
Runner" keeps things simple and elegant. After a brief opening
sequence in modern-day California, the film jumps back in time to
1970s Kabul, when the country was in the throes of a communist
revolution and an impending Soviet invasion. Twelve-year-old Amir
(Zekeria Ebrahimi) lives with the prosperous widowed ...
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