In retrospect, it was a tactical error to watch this one at the late screening (11pm) as it would've been heavy going at any time of day - although it did mean that, apart from one latecomer at the back, we had the cinema to ourselves.
It has a certain stageiness - and not just in the scenes of the production of the play within the film of Death of a Salesman - and the intriguing potential of the metaphor/synecdoche of the locked room and the haunting/violent return (of the repressed?) by the absent (except by phone) prostitute isn't fully satisfactorily developed, but it does feel like a very real and human film, strong (one assumes) on contemporary Iranian society and masculinity as it is more broadly.
(w/ trang)
It has a certain stageiness - and not just in the scenes of the production of the play within the film of Death of a Salesman - and the intriguing potential of the metaphor/synecdoche of the locked room and the haunting/violent return (of the repressed?) by the absent (except by phone) prostitute isn't fully satisfactorily developed, but it does feel like a very real and human film, strong (one assumes) on contemporary Iranian society and masculinity as it is more broadly.
(w/ trang)
