The Night It Rained
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Neutral, steady, gentle documentary / short, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Initially banned for seven years, the film treats the questionable and controversial newspaper story of a heroic village boy who prevented a train disaster as an antiauthoritarian, Rashomon-like puzzle.
Our read · The Night It Rained (1967) reads as a neutral, steady, inventive documentary · short · iranian entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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The shape of The Night It Rained
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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