2012 · drama · iranian
The Last Step
Directed by Ali Mosaffa1h 28m2012
Actress Leila bursts into laughter on camera during the filming of a dramatic scene. Her improper behavior is a reaction to the recent death of her husband Koshrow, who accidentally fell down a flight of stairs. And it is Koshrow who serves as the film’s somewhat unreliable narrator, appearing in the movie even after his death. The couple’s complicated yet loving relationship unfolds as a delicately ironic detective story inside the elusive and, at the same time, obsessively arranged space- time of memory. Nevertheless, it reveals Koshrow’s secret life crisis and delves deep into the past, to an ancient house in the mountains.
Our read: The Last Step (2012) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive drama · iranian entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, gentle drama / iranian, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- measured
- inventive
- intimate
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