A fascinating cinematic experiment starring Zar Amir Ebrahimi (Holy Spider). Mehran Tamadon, an Iranian director living in France, regularly returns to his home country to make films, which – he wants to believe - will become the nucleus of dialogue between the regime and society. When his Iranian passport is taken along with the right to enter the country, Tamadon decides to face the dictatorship on his terms. He reconstructs a brutal interrogation to force brutal agents to reckon with their cruelty as he assumes the role of the interrogatee and Ebrahimi takes on the dark challenge of playing the torturer. When she materializes on screen the film gains momentum and hurtles into an intriguing and transfixing psychodrama. While Tamadon faces his limitations, Ebrahimi’s executioner must face her demons. 

Marta Lityńska