Crimson Gold
Three by Jafar Panahi
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1h 36m
Directed by Jafar Panahi | 97 mins | 2003
This early film by the Iranian master—a thriller in reverse, opening with the climactic jewelry store heist before flashing back to its inciting events—is lesser-known but among his best. In the central role, Hossein Emadeddin: like his character, a mentally unstable pizza delivery man. With a script by his mentor Abbas Kiarostami, "Crimson Gold" is one of the rare Panahi films to not center women, delivering instead a searing, class-inflected portrait of masculinity in crisis.
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Closed Curtain
Directed by Jafar Panahi | 106 mins | 2013
Panahi’s follow-up to 2011’s "This Is Not a Film", also a meta-cinematic chamber piece made in defiance of the filmmaking ban imposed on him in 2010, finds the ever resourceful auteur, typically indefatigable, in a melancholic funk. "Closed Curtain" begi...