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7 años (2016)
Good idea but...
...could have been better: since the very beginning it is quite clear who is going to be chosen, but the foreseeable ending has never been a problem for one-room movies because they are based on dialogues.
Unfortunately, it is hard to empathize with these characters, though the actors did great.
Fifi Az Khoshhali Zooze Mikeshad (2013)
Wickedness of the director?
Shooting this long interview about Mohasses, the director Mitra Farahani makes Mohassess believe that she is doing a documentary about his life. Mohassess, a smart and funny old painter that has been famous in Iran, accepts flattered and gives clear instructions to Farahani about how he would like it to begin, how he would like the last scene to be, what poems he would like would be read during the movie.
Taking advantage of the death of Mohassess, the director makes fun of Mohassess, and puts on the screen many interviews but also embarrassing moments of the artist's life: from his frequent pauses for his need to pee (where she makes us listen to the sound of the flush of the toilet), to his burps while he is not being interviewed.
The director also keeps her camera switched on while he is dying, so that we can hear his last coughs while he is spitting blood: maybe the most intimate moment in everyone life.
What is clear from this long documentary, is that Mohassess was a narcissistic and proud old man, that would have never accepted to be part of a documentary like this. It is not about his life, but just about the last days on earth of a man.