We were always going to see the new Jafar Panahi film. After Taxi Tehran and No Bears, you can sign me up for any new film from Panahi. And more broadly, all of the Iranian cinema we’ve seen at the film festival has been gold.
This, fresh from winning the top prize at Cannes, is no different. It’s a fairly simple premise: what do you do if given the chance to take revenge on your torturer? And the story doesn’t do anything massively unexpected. But Panahi’s films are about the characters and they’re all just so human.