1977 · mystery · tehran · memory
The Crow
Directed by Bahram Beyzai2h 0m1977
When Mr. Esalat is looking for a topic for his TV show, he notices an advertisement in the newspaper about a missing girl. The picture of the missing girl is very familiar to him and he tries to remember where he saw it before. His wife Asieh is a teacher and at home she writes his mother's diary. When he searches for the address in that advertisement, he finds that it belongs to 30 years ago. Asieh is becoming interested in the missing girl too.
Our read: The Crow (1977) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive mystery · tehran · memory entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, measured mystery / tehran, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
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