'Tár' — The Monster's Side of Paradise
A film for the post-MeToo era that inverts the narrative with an ironic coda, Tár depicts the duality of a sensitive artist capable of great evil and vile manipulation.
A Dragon Arrives! (2016)
On Jan. 22, 1965, the day before the Iranian prime minister is assassinated, a car drives up to a shipwreck. Inside the wreck, a banished political prisoner has hung himself and the walls are covered in diary entries, literary quotes, and strange symbols. Fifty years later, the evidence, including intelligence tape recordings, is found in a box. The contents attest to the fact that the inspector and his colleagues were arrested, but why?
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On Jan. 22, 1965, the day before the Iranian prime minister is assassinated, a car drives up to a shipwreck. Inside the wreck, a banished political prisoner has hung himself and the walls are covered in diary entries, literary quotes, and strange symbols. Fifty years later, the evidence, including intelligence tape recordings, is found in a box. The contents attest to the fact that the inspector and his colleagues were arrested, but why?
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Genre:Drama, Mystery, Horror
Written By:Mani Haghighi
In Theaters:11/12/2016
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Runtime:107 minutes
Studio:Crossfadefilms, Dark Precursor Productions
Cast
Mani Haghighi
Director
Amir Jadidi
Babak Hafizi
Ehsan Goodarzi
Keyvan Haddad / Sound engineer
Homayoun Ghanizadeh
Behnam Shokoohi / Geologist
Nader Fallah
Almas
Ali Bagheri
Javad Charaki
Kiana Tajammol
Shahrzad Besharat (young)
Mani Haghighi
Himself
Kamran Safamanesh
Saeed Jahangiri
Javad Ansari
Darshan
Shahin Karimi
Shahrzad Besharat (old)
Laila Arjumand
Valleh
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