French distributor Damned Films has closed a deal with sales outfit Dreamlab films for “Invasion,” director Shahram Mokri’s Iranian film “Careless Crime” that will have its world premiere Tuesday at the Venice Film Festival’s Horizons section.
Damned will distribute in France, overseas territories administered by France, Monaco and Andorra.
Set 40 years ago, during the uprising to overthrow the Shah’s regime in Iran, the film follows protestors who set fire to movie theaters as a way of showing opposition to Western culture. In one tragic case, a theater was set on fire with 400 people inside, most of whom were burned alive. Forty years hence, in contemporary Iran, four individuals also decide to burn a cinema down. Their intended target is a theater showing a film about an unearthed, unexploded missile.
“We are thrilled to have this deal sealed especially at a time where physically going to a cinema...
Damned will distribute in France, overseas territories administered by France, Monaco and Andorra.
Set 40 years ago, during the uprising to overthrow the Shah’s regime in Iran, the film follows protestors who set fire to movie theaters as a way of showing opposition to Western culture. In one tragic case, a theater was set on fire with 400 people inside, most of whom were burned alive. Forty years hence, in contemporary Iran, four individuals also decide to burn a cinema down. Their intended target is a theater showing a film about an unearthed, unexploded missile.
“We are thrilled to have this deal sealed especially at a time where physically going to a cinema...
- 9/7/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Chicago International Film Festival 2012
Meeting Leila
Directed by: Adel Yaraghi
Cast: Bahareh Rahmana, Leila Yatani
Running Time: 1 hr 28 mins
Rating: Nr
Release Date: Tbd
Click Here for complete coverage of the Chicago International Film Festival (Ciff 2012)
Plot: Before he gets married, a man (Rahmana) who creates commercial ideas must give up chain-smoking or lose his wife (Hatami).
Who’S It For? Those who want to see what else Hatami can do (other than A Separation), and those who like movies that are thoroughly simple.
Overall
Meeting Leila is the type of light comedy that is too thin — however cute it wants to be, it could be blown over by the even the friendliest of breezes. At the most, it’s admirably daring to tackle a story concept as simple as this, especially as many scenes rely on male lead Rahmana dealing with one question — “Can I smoke another cigarette without my fiancee noticing?...
Meeting Leila
Directed by: Adel Yaraghi
Cast: Bahareh Rahmana, Leila Yatani
Running Time: 1 hr 28 mins
Rating: Nr
Release Date: Tbd
Click Here for complete coverage of the Chicago International Film Festival (Ciff 2012)
Plot: Before he gets married, a man (Rahmana) who creates commercial ideas must give up chain-smoking or lose his wife (Hatami).
Who’S It For? Those who want to see what else Hatami can do (other than A Separation), and those who like movies that are thoroughly simple.
Overall
Meeting Leila is the type of light comedy that is too thin — however cute it wants to be, it could be blown over by the even the friendliest of breezes. At the most, it’s admirably daring to tackle a story concept as simple as this, especially as many scenes rely on male lead Rahmana dealing with one question — “Can I smoke another cigarette without my fiancee noticing?...
- 10/21/2012
- by Nick Allen
- The Scorecard Review
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