A Man of Integrity

Name: A Man of Integrity
Genre: Drama
Released: June 17, 2022
Duration: 113 min
Rating: 78
Cast: Bagher Yekta, Majid Potki, Mehdi Mehraban, Missagh Zareh, Nasim Adabi

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| Release Date: June 17, 2022 | PG-13

Starring: Bagher Yekta, Majid Potki, Mehdi Mehraban, Missagh Zareh, Nasim Adabi, Reza Akhlaghirad, Sepehr Ebadi, Soudabeh Beizaee, Zeinab Shabani, Zhila Shahi

Summary: Somewhere in a remote village in Northern Iran, Reza, having distanced himself from the urban quagmire, leads a simple life along with his wife and son. He spends his days working in his gold fish farm. Nearby, a private company with close links to the government and local authorities has taken control of nearly every aspect of the region.Somewhere in a remote village in Northern Iran, Reza, having distanced himself from the urban quagmire, leads a simple life along with his wife and son. He spends his days working in his gold fish farm. Nearby, a private company with close links to the government and local authorities has taken control of nearly every aspect of the region. Its shareholders, accumulating wealth, power and economic rents, have been pushing local farmers and small owners to dilapidated farms and estates, to the benefit of the Company’s influential network and its monopoly. It is under their pressure that many villagers have themselves become local rings of the larger network of corruption. … Expand

Director: Mohammad Rasoulof

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 113 min

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Robert Abele

Jun 17, 2022

Lest you think this is all a bit much for one family to endure, Rasoulof’s storytelling acumen is firmly in the realm of propulsive, detail-driven ethical thriller built on its character’s actions, rather than mere punching-bag melodrama. And it goes somewhere, most importantly, with its ideas, leaving you after its final, devastating image with something to think about instead of simply abandoned with your rage or pity. Read full review

Richard Brody

Jun 16, 2022

A Man of Integrity is both a work of political defiance and of artistic audacity. The movie’s extreme contrast between the bland surfaces of daily life and the maddening pressures of ambient power looming beneath them turns its starkly realistic images into calmly furious denunciations, journalistic revelations, and even wildly disorienting hallucinations. Read full review

Deborah Young

Jun 16, 2022

An uncompromising drama from one of Iran’s most outspoken directors. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Jun 2, 2022

Through it all, Akhlaghirad makes a fine, seething muse for Rasoulof, a character who never quite gave up his student protestor past now speaking for a filmmaker who plainly never outgrew his, either. Read full review

The Playlist Jessica Kiang

Jun 16, 2022

Rasoulof’s film, while understandably angry, is nothing if not singleminded . It’s a saturnine morality tale that unfolds in shades of rainy gray beneath leaden, overcast skies, gritting up the nation’s cinematic tradition of humanist drama to an almost unrecognizable degree. Read full review

Devika Girish

Jun 16, 2022

Employing minimal background music and a bleak, blue-gray color palette, Rasoulof evokes a sense of nihilism that is as suffocating as it is affecting. Read full review

Ray Lobo

Jun 16, 2022

If your first exposure to Rasoulof was There is No Evil, you may feel a bit let down by A Man of Integrity. That is not to say that this is a subpar film, as it is definitely a satisfying drama. Read full review

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