2016 · drama · fantasy · iranian
A Dragon Arrives!
Directed by Mani Haghighi1h 47m2016
On Jan. 22, 1965, the day before the Iranian prime minister is assassinated, a car drives up to a shipwreck. Inside the wreck, a banished political prisoner has hung himself and the walls are covered in diary entries, literary quotes, and strange symbols. Fifty years later, the evidence, including intelligence tape recordings, is found in a box. The contents attest to the fact that the inspector and his colleagues were arrested, but why?
Our read: A Dragon Arrives! (2016) reads as a sombre, measured, surreal drama · fantasy · iranian entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / fantasy, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- measured
- surreal
- twisty
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