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Be Calm and Count to Seven

BAFICI 2009
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Year:

2008
Original Title:

Be Calm and Count to Seven
País:

Irán 
Director:

Ramtin Lavafipour
Color:

Color
Format:

Video: Digibeta
Duration:

89 min
Cast:
  • Hedayat Hashemi, Omid Abdollahi, Mahnaz Talandeh
Production:
  • GUIÓN: Ramtin Lavafipour
  • FOTOGRAFÍA: Reza Teymouri
  • MONTAJE: Ramtin Lavafipour
  • PRODUCCIÓN: Ramtin Lavafipour

Synopsis

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 realistic– when transfigured by his gaze) could possibly be. Much of what seems regional in this film is revealed as universal or, rather, global, from that kid who dreams of being like Ronaldinho while having to face the disappearance of his father and make a living out of smuggling. Along with him, there's an intermediary with a toothache that's always on the phone with his wife, who lives in Tehran, and a girl who lost her boyfriend on their wedding night and plants a tree in the middle of the desert.