Mohammad Rasoulof directs Soheila Golestani, Missagh Zareh and Setareh Maleki in this Iranian thriller set around an investigating judge’s family during youth protests that are being violently suppressed.

Claustrophobic drama told mainly from the POV of the women of a middle class Tehran family. They live in the relative safety of their confined apartment. Aspiring to the better life that the father’s promotion should bring but reacting emotionally to the injustices he is a part of. They and we witness a student uprising through social media, but then it is arrives dangerously on their doorstep and soon it has destroyed their family. Constant pressure cooker. Not the most cheery movie ever made but a challenging watch not afraid of complicity, irony and moral grey areas.

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