‘Tehran Law’ ★★★★
Address Saeed Roustayi
interpreters Navid Mohammadzadeh, Peyman Moaadi, Parinaz Izadyar
Year 2019
premiere 24 June 2022
There is both ‘boiled’ police cinema and neorealism in this film. Surprising movie about the fight against drug trafficking in Iran. Neorealism is the law in the prison raid and subsequent sequences, where jailed crack addicts pile into half-naked, filthy, suffocating cells. It’s hard to tell whether the dozens of extras are that person or just a real drug addict. looking into space without seeing and acting like zombies.
Director Saeed Roustayi distances himself from the movies, with an intense initial pace and a later development that takes time to portray the main characters—two cops at odds and a powerful drug trafficker—in the dreary environments of the prison and police station. What we know about what Iranian cinema has to offer in Europe a brawny, realistic, and not at all moral portrait of the problem.
The film competed in Venice in 2019, its premiere in Iran was a huge success, was halted by the pandemic and won the Reims festival dedicated to film noir in 2021. And this, A brilliant piece of “noir” that clearly considers the conflict it speaks of up frontIt’s full of wonderful moments, like the interrogation of the trader’s ex-partner, the first raid, or anything that concerns a 12-year-old boy whose poor father wants to frame him to get him out of jail.
Source: Informacion
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