The director talks about escaping his father’s shadow, and censorship in Iran
is as depressing as its subject matter. The first half weaves in comic vignettes such as a hitchhiking cyclist who’s cheating in a race and an annoying dog that nobody wishes to abandon. Inside the SUV, too, the family dynamic unfolds like a finely tuned sitcom pilot, although it gradually reveals a more sinister reality: the older son’s slumping body language is apologetic, the mother frets that they’re being followed, and a mobile phone is buried in the dirt.
“What I found more interesting than factually presenting contemporary Iran, is this journey of a family letting their child go,” Panah explains. “They’re sending their child to the unknown. Maybe death. But still, you let your child leave. That’s probably what allowed audiences of the world to relate to this film. It’s not about one group of people who have one specific problem in one point of the world; it’s something more common to our existence as human beings.
, on which Panah was an editor. (Our Zoom call is a few weeks before the arrest of Jafar Panahi by the Iranian government for enquiring about the detention of fellow filmmakers Mohammad Rasoulof and Mostafa Al-Ahmad. At the time of writing, Jafar is facing six years’ imprisonment; his wife told the
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