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4 days ago · That The Secret of the Sacred Fig starts off like the kind of subtle, intricately made chamber piece that Iranian cinema has been known for, whether in films like Close-Up or A Separation, only to ...
3 days ago · By Kyle Buchanan. Reporting from Cannes, France. May 25, 2024. While shooting his new film “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” the director Mohammad Rasoulof learned that he was facing eight years in...
3 days ago · Narrated by Jean-Louis Trintignant, who died in 2022, and based on a story by Jean-Claude Grumberg, it is an animated feature about how a woodcutter and his wife secretly take in a baby girl from a train that was headed to the camps. The animation is in a deliberately simple style, and the storytelling favors a fable-ish abstraction.
4 days ago · May 24, 2024 1:22am. Mohammad Rasalouf By Leo Jacob. Mohammad Rasoulof has arrived. The dissident Iranian director is at the Cannes Film Festival to present his new film, The Seed of the...
2 days ago · By Marta Balaga. Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival. Mohammad Rasoulof’s “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” won the Fipresci award at Cannes.
4 days ago · The sacred fig of the title, as a short prologue explains, is a tree that seeds itself on other trees, sending roots into the air and eventually enveloping and killing the host tree to become its ...
4 days ago · Courtesy Neon. Share. “ The Seed of the Sacred Fig ” is an anguished cry from the heart of Mohammad Rasoulof, the Iranian filmmaker who just fled his home country for Europe after an eight ...
