Iranian Film Festival at Freer Gallery

What's the connection between slasher flicks and the art of M.C. Escher? Both inspired Iranian writer-director Shahram Mokri's "Fish & Cat," winner of a special award for innovation at the 2013 Venice Film Festival. The 134-minute thriller, which was shot, astoundingly, in a single take, involves an isolated lake, creepy woods, a group of camping students and a restaurant that may be serving human flesh. But more striking than the movie's plot is its uncanny chronology, in which time seems to do...