Holy Spider
2023
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Ali Abbasi (Persian: علی عباسی, born 1981) is an Iranian-Danish filmmaker. He is known for his films Shelley (2016), Border (2018), Holy Spider (2022), and The Apprentice (2024). Abbasi also directed the last two episodes of the first season of the series The Last of Us.
Ali Abbasi is a filmmaker born in Tehran, Iran in 1981. He is known for his movies Border, Holy Spider and Shelley, as well as the TV series The Last of Us.
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- Tehran, Iran
May 19, 2022 · The director of 'Border' and 'Holy Spider' talks about his Cannes competition entry, based on a true story of a notorious serial killer and a female journalist. He explores the themes of alienation, misogyny and censorship in Iranian society.
For filmmaker Ali Abbasi, who was studying as a student in Tehran at the time of the killings, the story became the basis of a project that he would spend the next 20 years working to get made. That film, Holy Spider, untangles the Spider Killer murders and the man, Saeed Hanaei, behind them.
Nov 12, 2018 · The Iranian-born Swedish director of Border and Shelley shares his personal list of the greatest films ever made, from Pasolini to Lynch. He explains why he admires their beauty, politics, formalism, and hypnosis.
May 20, 2022 · Abbasi spoke about making the first “Persian (film) noir,” breaking the conventions of European and Iranian cinema, and why he’ll never be a “Louis Vuitton filmmaker.”
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Oct 13, 2022 · Holy Spider, the latest film from Border director Ali Abbasi tackles the shocking, surreal, and often infuriating true story around serial killer Saeed Hanaei.
