1993 · drama · social · family
Abadanis
Directed by Kianush Ayyari1h 33m1993
The car of a war refugee who is now living in Tehran is stolen. He with the help of his son begins a desperate search for finding his stolen car. Meanwhile he meets a man who can help him and his son Borna is too after his missing eyeglasses.
Our read: Abadanis (1993) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · social · family entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / social, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- measured
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