Terrestrial Verses
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| Kimstim Films | Release Date: April 26, 2024 |
Starring:
Ali Asgari, Alireza Khatami, Ardeshir Kazemi, Arghavan Shabani, Bahram Ark, Faezeh Rad, Farzin Mohades, Gohar Kheirandish, Hossein Soleimani, Majid Salehi, Sadaf Asgari, Sarvin Zabetian
Summary:
In Tehran, a new father seeks to register the name (insufficiently Islamic, he is told) of his newborn son; a 20-something rideshare driver caught on camera without a hijab attempts to retrieve her impounded car; a man with poem tattoos applies for a driver’s license; an elderly woman pleads with the police for the return of her beloved dog.
RogerEbert.com
Apr 26, 2024
Terrestrial Verses, one of the most brilliant and provocative films to emerge from Iran recently, has qualities that link it to both the modernist formal traditions of post-1979 Iranian cinema and the more recent trend of social and political asperities aimed at the authoritarian repressiveness of the Islamic Republic.
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Apr 26, 2024
The Playlist
Mar 21, 2024
Apr 26, 2024
It is a modest, methodical movie-in-vignettes that demonstrates the far-reaching, constrictive force of Iran’s regime and the society it has created. It is also a canny representation of the kind of straight-faced authoritarian illogic that creates its own delusional reality, which is then forced upon a people.
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Mar 21, 2024
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