DOWNPOUR:
A timid teacher
Learns to connect with village
John Hughes meets New Wave
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José Arroyo and Richard Layne on The Deer/ Gavaznha (Masoud Kimiai, 1974)
José Arroyo and Richard Layne on The Deer/ Gavaznha (Masoud Kimiai, 1974)
We continue with our exploration of the Iranian Cinema on offer at the Wales One World festival with a discussion of the extraordinary The Deer/ Gavaznha (1974), a metaphor for pre-revolutionary Iran’s social relations, focussing on down and outs living in a courtyard with a heroin addict and a bank robber as heroes. The influence of Italian neo-realism is everywhere present in a film that…
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