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Mirai (2018)

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Hit the Road (2021)

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Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company, The (1986)

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Crossing, The (2021)

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Nanook of the North (1922)

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Trou, Le (1960)

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Lingui, the Sacred Bonds (2021)

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Nostalghia (1983)

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Broker (2022)

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Tag / Iran

July 1, 2022July 1, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Hit the Road (2021)

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  • Iran, 2021
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Tonally uneven and tries too hard to be captivating, Panah Panahi’s tragicomic debut feature is a mixed bag of a road movie, despite the picturesque cinematography and some genuine moments of human empathy.  

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Rating: 3 out of 5.

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March 25, 2022 by Eternality Tan

About Elly (2009)

  • Farhadi, Asghar
  • 2009, Asghar Farhadi, Iran
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A Best Director winner at the Berlinale, Farhadi weaves a complex web of human relationships that become incredibly strained when a young woman mysteriously disappears in this riotous if unsettling drama.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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March 20, 2022March 20, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Fireworks Wednesday (2006)

  • Farhadi, Asghar
  • 2006, Asghar Farhadi, Iran
  • 1 Comment

Women seem to know the answer to men’s problems in this superlative suspenseful drama from Farhadi, as suspected infidelity threatens to ruin the lives of a married couple.

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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March 13, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Beautiful City (2004)

  • Farhadi, Asghar
  • 2004, Asghar Farhadi, Iran
  • 1 Comment

Farhadi’s second feature is, in hindsight, a companion piece to A Hero—while it lacks the nuance of his later works, one can already witness his penchant for telling intricately-plotted dramas about morality.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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January 28, 2022April 16, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Hero, A (2021)

  • Farhadi, Asghar
  • 2021, Asghar Farhadi, Iran
  • 3 Comments

The finest film Farhadi has put out in years—here he skilfully draws out a complex, delicate drama with weighty themes of morality, truth and honour from a simple premise: a debt-ridden prisoner and a bag of gold coins. 

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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September 12, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Shirin (2008)

  • Kiarostami, Abbas
  • 2008, Abbas Kiarostami, Iran
  • 4 Comments

Kiarostami shoots the close-ups of more than a hundred actresses as they watch a theatrical presentation unfold in this conceptually bold but ultimately uninvolving treatise on the nature of spectatorship.

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Rating: 3 out of 5.

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July 21, 2021July 26, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Ten (2002)

  • Kiarostami, Abbas
  • 2002, Abbas Kiarostami, Iran
  • 4 Comments

It runs a little out of steam by the end, but Kiarostami’s breakthrough experiment with the digital video camera is a revelation as the private, unfiltered conversations in a car become wrestling bouts against patriarchy, served with ten ‘dings’ of the bell. 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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July 12, 2021November 21, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Wind Will Carry Us, The (1999)

  • Kiarostami, Abbas
  • 1999, Abbas Kiarostami, Iran
  • 4 Comments

Kiarostami’s observant eye for landscapes and people reaches its apotheosis here in this graceful, if sometimes elusive, meditation on life and mortality.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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May 31, 2021August 15, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Ballad of a White Cow (2021)

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  • 2021, Iran
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It may be at times contrived and slow-moving, but this Iranian drama about the impact of a wrongful state execution on a family accumulates enough power to work.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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March 18, 2021October 30, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Through the Olive Trees (1994)

  • Criterion Collection, Kiarostami, Abbas
  • 1994, Abbas Kiarostami, Iran
  • 1 Comment

Kiarostami closes his wondrous ‘Koker’ trilogy with an even more multi-layered, meta-cinematic experiment in the guise of a love story.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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