Anger and pain course through this sincere Iranian film about love and loss, but it fails to deliver the emotional payoff Iranian actor-director Niki Karimi has created a very involved film, clotted with anger and pain, straining towards some emotional meaning or resolution which, for me, never satisfyingly emerges. She has co-written it with the film's leading man, Hadi Hejazifar who with unsmiling intensity plays Kazem, a respected architect bearing the honorific "atabai", (meaning roughly "gr...
Anger and pain course through this sincere Iranian film about love and loss, but it fails to deliver the emotional payoff Iranian actor-director Niki Karimi has created a very involved film, clotted with anger and pain, straining towards some emotional meaning or resolution which, for me, never satisfyingly emerges. She has co-written it with the film's leading man, Hadi Hejazifar who with unsmiling intensity plays Kazem, a respected architect bearing the honorific "atabai", (meaning roughly "gr...
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