In his youth, Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf was involved with a militant anti-Shah group. During one protest, then 17-year-old Makhmalbaf stabbed a policeman, was arrested and imprisoned until he was released during the Iranian revolution in the 1970s. The event itself troubled the director for quite some time as it was crucial for his development as a person as well as an artist, which is why he finally decided to confront it in his 1996 feature “A Moment of Innocence”, a movie that, like most of his other works, was banned in Iran, but praised especially by European and American critics who compared it to Francois Truffaut’s “The 400 Blows”, for example.
At the center of the story, we have Mohsen Makhmalbaf playing himself as a director attempting to make a feature film about an event in his youth which led to his imprisonment and defined himself. In order to...
At the center of the story, we have Mohsen Makhmalbaf playing himself as a director attempting to make a feature film about an event in his youth which led to his imprisonment and defined himself. In order to...
- 8/10/2020
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
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