Be Calm and Count to Seven

 

The sea and the beach in this film can make us think of Lost as well as the Italian coasts of Neorealism. As would happen more than once in that post-war cinema, here the presence of a child also shows the state of society. But as in the aforementioned TV series, the water is a mysterious, impassable frontier throughout the story. Of course, the territory in this film is so apparently far from ours as an Iran that doesn't even look like the one built up by Kiarostami (more real –though not re [...]

Duration

89 min

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