taddayyon

Unique and innovative in many ways: Impressive music, realistic acting, awesome editing, and above all, magnetic storytelling. An Ashigh (a traditional storyteller and musician in northwest of Iran) tells an impossible love story of a saddler and a formerly christian widow who converted to Islam. But there are also jinns who tempts the saddler to come to a tragic decision in a dilemmatic situation.

I also think this film shows the most accurate image of jinns according to Iranian folklore (as I myself imagined when I listened to my grandpa's tales.)

Beautiful and meaningful. Extremely recommended.

A forgotten worthy piece of picture that depicts the sad story of a penniless couple in the south of Iran, Hormozgan province. The man, a deckhand, protests against state control of persian gulf, collaborating with British colonialists and local elites, but he gets socially stigmatized as TAHRAN (badly possessed by an evil spirit). Tragically, her wife is forced to satisfy the spirit of the sea, in order to exorcise it from her beloved husband.

Symbolic and yet realistic. Professional cast and crew. And Unfortunately, the only film directed by Jamshid Malekpour, stage director and theater historian.

An absolutely Masterpiece from a great underrated director, who worked as assistant of Mizoguchi and his films, like those of his master's, are contemplative, although not such slow. Seisaku's Wife tells a rich and impressive story about an inevitable love in contradiction to military honor. You can see desperate life instinct in the age of imperial deadly values. This dichotomy, of course, is not unfamiliar in Japanese classic cinema: Naruse's Floating Clouds and, even more, Suzuki's Story of a Prostitute (also made in 1965) showed the same contradiction. But I found Masumura's movie stronger: Majestic pictures, simple but splendid music, and excellent performances. It is strongly recommended, especially if you love infinite golden heritage of Japanese studio cinema.