As our own Anne Thompson told it best in her latest profile of “It was just an accident” movie creator and loved Iranian author Jafar Panhi: “For the past 15 years, (he) has been imprisoned, blindfold, interrogated and placed under house arrest with a 20-year ban on making films” by their home country.
Next up for Panahi and his continued problems with government agencies? Have to miss New York Film Festival premiere of its latest film because of the US’s own government suspension.
Variation reports that Panahi missed the evening’s show of his Palme d’or winner on InnocenceAnd the festival has also interrupted a planned live chat today between Panahi and Martin Scorsese. The outlet reports that Panahi’s journey was stunned because “his visa could not be treated on time” and “The culprit is the government’s suspension, which started on September 30 after the congress leaders failed to reach a financing agreement.”
Panahi’s latest is his first function since he was imprisoned for several months in 2023 for criticizing the Iranian government. As he has often been forced to do in recent years, the Panahi has secretly shot the movie. The film was inspired by his own experiences in prison.
Like David Ehrlich wrote in his review of the movie“In his first project since the regime seems to be lifted its limitations for his art, Panahi deducts (his own) various prison experiences for a raw and blowing moral thriller about a hard -working Azeri man whose most tormented memories come to the surface when he hears someone to go into his place for business with the same haunting squeak of his previous torthetic torthetic torthetic torthetic Impulsively abandon the man (Ebrahim Azizi, the only professional actor in this extraordinary role), pulls him into the middle of the desert and digs a hole enough to bury his pain alive. “
The film was a smash here when it premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, where it won Palme d’Or. In recent weeks, it was selected as France’s entry for the Academy Awards. Neon releases “It was just an accident“In theaters in New York and Los Angeles on Wednesday, October 15 with a national roll -out to follow.
