Yalda, a Night for Forgivness

Name: Yalda, a Night for Forgivness
Genre: Drama
Released: December 11, 2020
Duration: 89 min
Rating: 69
Cast: Arman Darvish, Babak Karimi, Behnaz Jafari, Faghiheh Soltani, Fereshteh Hosseini

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Film Movement | Release Date (Streaming): December 11, 2020 | Not Rated

Starring: Arman Darvish, Babak Karimi, Behnaz Jafari, Faghiheh Soltani, Fereshteh Hosseini, Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy, Forough Ghajabagli, Ramona Shah, Sadaf Asgari, Zakieh Behbahani

Summary: The lights and cameras are all in position. The moderator takes a last quick look at his notes. The final seconds of the intro ad roll by, and then the show goes live. Tonight’s guest is Maryam, a young woman condemned to death for murdering her husband. With her in the studio is Mona, the daughter of the dead man. Maryam is supposed to begThe lights and cameras are all in position. The moderator takes a last quick look at his notes. The final seconds of the intro ad roll by, and then the show goes live. Tonight’s guest is Maryam, a young woman condemned to death for murdering her husband. With her in the studio is Mona, the daughter of the dead man. Maryam is supposed to beg for forgiveness, and her life, for the camera. If Mona grants her forgiveness, Maryam will live, and the show's sponsors will pay Mona a reward. If she denies it, Maryam will die. Millions of television viewers are tuning in on the night of Yalda, the Persian celebration of the winter solstice, to see Maryam's fate unfold. Alluding to a real, popular Iranian TV show, the television studio serves as a stage for a startling chamber play between these two women, and the social pressures behind their circumstances. [Film Movement]… Expand

Director: Massoud Bakhshi

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 89 min

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Movie Nation Roger Moore

Mar 3, 2021

Yalda: A Night of Forgiveness is a riveting and thoroughly engrossing satire of Iranian culture and the work-arounds built into a theocracy, ways of ignoring calls for reform and the shedding of “tradition.” Read full review

RogerEbert.com Roxana Hadadi

Dec 14, 2020

The result is a twisty-turny plot that sometimes feels like a family drama, sometimes like a legal thriller, with Bahkshi delivering a bombshell, allowing the film’s characters time to react to it, and then dropping another secret that is even more shocking than the first. Read full review

Carlos Aguilar

Dec 10, 2020

The riveting and superbly acted Iranian drama, based on a real variety show, poses a moral crucible born out of a theocratic system that disfavors women amid the heightened tension of the on-camera spectacle. Read full review

Deborah Young

Dec 10, 2020

There is really much to enjoy in this paradoxical but grippingly paced film. Read full review

The Playlist Andrew Bundy

Dec 10, 2020

It leans a bit heavy into big swing emotional moments and has a few shouting matches too many, but Asgari gives an absolutely tremendous performance that hits like a wrecking ball and may make even the most stone-hearted tear up. Read full review

Tomris Laffly

Dec 10, 2020

Bakhshi’s sure-handed assessment of Iran’s class struggle, a thoughtfully-parsed topic with universal implications, is the film’s most fascinating dimension. Read full review

Allan Hunter

Dec 10, 2020

The slick assurance of Bakhshi’s approach makes for an accessible, pacey melodrama but one that can also seem to trivialise the life and death matters at the core of the story. Read full review

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