Manuscripts Don't Burn

Name: Manuscripts Don't Burn
Genre: Drama
Released: June 13, 2014
Duration: 125 min
Rating: 88

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Kino Lorber | Release Date: June 13, 2014 | Not Rated

Summary: Clandestinely produced in disavowal of a 20-year filmmaking ban passed down by the Iranian authorities, the scathing Manuscripts Don’t Burn brings a whole new level of clarity and audacity to Mohommad Rasoulof’s already laudable career. Drawing from the true story of the government’s attempted 1995 murder of several prominent writers andClandestinely produced in disavowal of a 20-year filmmaking ban passed down by the Iranian authorities, the scathing Manuscripts Don’t Burn brings a whole new level of clarity and audacity to Mohommad Rasoulof’s already laudable career. Drawing from the true story of the government’s attempted 1995 murder of several prominent writers and intellectuals, Rasoulof imagines a repressive regime so pervasive that even the morally righteous are subsumed or cast aside. A lacerating and slow-burning thriller filmed in a frigid palate of blues and greys, Manuscripts Don’t Burn is perhaps the most subversive and incendiary j’accuse lodged against an authoritarian regime since the fall of the Soviet Union. [Kino Lorber]… Expand

Director: Mohammad Rasoulof

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 125 min

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IndieWire Eric Kohn

Jun 12, 2014

Rather than relish in the stark proceedings, Manuscripts Don't Burn preys on its viewers' imagination, leaving several deaths and other dreary outcomes off-screen. In the unbearable tension of its final moments, the movie arrives at an expected destination, but the outcome stings more than anything preceding it. Read full review

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Peter Keough

Aug 21, 2014

The government, even under the new, more moderate leadership of President Hassan Rouhani, has reason for concern. Unlike Rasoulof and Panahi’s previous, more metaphorical films, this one confronts its subject head-on with unflinching candor. Read full review

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The Guardian Leslie Felperin

Oct 26, 2015

Putting aside the worthiness of its politics, this is also a crackling, tense thriller, graced with beautifully measured performances, that explores with wisdom and sorrow the best and worst in human nature. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Godfrey Cheshire

Jun 13, 2014

Easily the most daring and politically provocative film yet to emerge from Iran. Read full review

Simon Kinnear

Dec 14, 2014

The initially cryptic plotting and low-key realism are familiar from Iranian dramas; what’s striking is how Rasoulof shifts into such a lucid, gut-punching tale of persecution. The film’s flaws are forgivable; its very existence should be applauded. Read full review

Alissa Simon

Jun 12, 2014

A brave, challenging picture that makes the viewer complicit in the action, it is also perhaps the first film since the declaration of the Islamic Republic to confront so directly the brutality of the feared security apparatus. Read full review

Sam Fragoso

Jun 11, 2014

Rasoulof’s dissident return to filmmaking is ultimately little more than a sporadically searing, though more often unfocused and listless treatise on the pervasive censorship enforced by the autocratic Iranian government. Read full review

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Jun 5, 2023

یکی از روشن‌ترین فیلمها درباره وضعیت سیاسی ایران باتوجه به جایگاه دستگاه‌های امنیتی در کنترل و پرونده‌سازی علیه مخالفین و تن‌دادن طبقه‌ی گرفتار به اجرای دستورات بخاطر جبری که اتفاقا حکومت باعثشهیکی از روشن‌ترین فیلمها درباره وضعیت سیاسی ایران باتوجه به جایگاه دستگاه‌های امنیتی در کنترل و پرونده‌سازی علیه مخالفین و تن‌دادن طبقه‌ی گرفتار به اجرای دستورات بخاطر جبری که اتفاقا حکومت باعثشه

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