Children Of Heaven (1998) **

Touching story of two little children from Teheran, forced to share a single pair of shoes. Mixing pathos, comedy, and sentimentality, the film belongs to the familiar Iranian genre of "children-on-a-quest" movies, but its roots go much deeper, all the way to Vittorio De Sica's masterpieces of Italian neo-realism like "Shoeshine" and "The Bicycle Thief".