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- 2018
- Film Movement
- 1 h 40 m
- 2018
- Film Movement
- 1 h 40 m
Summary Esmail is a young Iranian man who is desperately looking to meet women who can secure his stay in Denmark. As time is running out he falls in love with one woman as another woman's husband sets out for revenge.
Directed By: Milad Alami
Written By: Ingeborg Topsøe, Milad Alami
- 2018
- Film Movement
- 1 h 40 m
- 2018
- Film Movement
- 1 h 40 m
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Summary Esmail is a young Iranian man who is desperately looking to meet women who can secure his stay in Denmark. As time is running out he falls in love with one woman as another woman's husband sets out for revenge.
Directed By: Milad Alami
Written By: Ingeborg Topsøe, Milad Alami
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
78
83% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
17% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
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It’s impressive that Alami can put all this across — romance, suspense and, in the moving final act, a kind of tragedy — and maintain the movie’s nimbleness. But he’s a natural storyteller.
A sharply crafted drama that has elements of noirish suspense, the Danish-Swedish coproduction, which is distinguished by exceptionally fine performances by its three leading actors, offers an incisive, penetrating look at the psychological disorientation and dilemmas of people caught between cultures.
Alami and Ingeborg Topsøe’s finely whittled screenplay plays its revelations patiently, putting a lot of early trust in their leading man’s powers of silent implication and the serene foreboding of Sophia Olsson’s charcoal-streaked cinematography.
Ardalan Esmaili and Soho Rezanejad give the film a real sense of compassion and depth, with their scenes together brimming with depth and a sense of shared history.
On the surface it is indeed a gentle, well-mannered and elegant affair, but its caustic undertow, which becomes increasingly apparent, ends up making the viewer angry about a world that seems hell-bent on finding divisions where there need be none.
Director and co-writer Milad Alami's film feels like several fused-together trial drafts of the same narrative.
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Production Company
Good Company Films,
Garagefilm International,
Film i Väst,
Act3,
Red Rental,
FilmGear,
Vixens,
Sveriges Television (SVT),
New Danish Screen,
Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI)
Release Date Dec 5, 2018
Duration 1 h 40 m
Awards
San Sebastián International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Tbilisi International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
FEST International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
