2018 · drama · romance · iranian
Mohammad Reza
1h 52m2018
A spotlight on the great classical singer Mohammad Reza Shajarian whose music reaches 800 years back into Persian history. Between songs, Shajarian talks about his inspiration, explains the meaning of the songs and discusses the poets behind them.
Our read: Mohammad Reza (2018) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded drama · romance · iranian entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, measured, gentle drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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