1993 · drama · iranian
Sara
Directed by Dariush Mehrjui1h 42m1993
Sara is the perfect young housewife. When husband Hessam requires an expensive emergency operation abroad, it is she who works for the funds. For the next three years she labors secretly to pay the shady loan shark and save Hessam - until the truth is revealed and with it, the reality of her marriage.
Our read: Sara (1993) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · iranian entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / iranian, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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