THEThe seed of the sacred fig
Type: Dramatic ✦✦✦ 1/2
Director: Mohammad Rasoulof. With Sohelia Golestani, Missagh Zareh, Mahsa Rostami
How can a director continue to work in a totalitarian state and pervaded by religious fanaticism? Mohammad Rasoulof, 8 films shot in semi-clandestinity, had found his way: “Playing with the opponent”. Until the rope has broken.
This film, very awarded in Cannes, was the last one that Tehran’s director shot at home. He, like the protagonist actresses, now lives exile in Germany.
A scene from the film “The seed of the sacred fig” by Mohammad Rasoulof.
Conceived during an arrest, the film he has for Three young women, daughters of an official promoted to the rank of judgestarts from the close topicality (the manifestations of the “Donna Vita Libertà” movement, in which the girls participate) to slide in the second part towards the psychological thriller.
The absolute power of the Father is that of a country in deep crisis, The awakening of the daughters is that of all women. To see.
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