Is it ever right to enact revenge? This is the main question that Vahid (Vahid Mobasseri) wrestles with in It Was Just an Accident, Jafar Panahi’s Palme d’Or-winning thriller that works as a rebuke to the oppressive Iranian regime. Vahid happens upon the chance to enact Read More …
Winner of last year’s Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, The Salesman did not receive a wide release until this year, and it is one of Farhadi’s most powerful films yet. The imitation between art and life blurs after two married actors are forced to evacuate their Read More …
“There are moments when the social world seems more evident in an object or a gesture than in the whole concatenation of our beliefs and institutions.” In this quote, anthropologist David MacDougall encapsulates the ambition of observational cinema with perfect precision. “Through our senses we Read More …