Film
It Was Just an Accident and the Weight of Not Knowing
Jafar Panahi's Palme d'Or winner is a revenge thriller built on a doubt that can never be cleared, and the doubt is the point.
Lena Ashworth·26 Jun·6 min
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Jafar Panahi's Palme d'Or winner is a revenge thriller built on a doubt that can never be cleared, and the doubt is the point.
Mohammad Rasoulof shot the film in secret, fled Iran during post-production, and arrived at Cannes with a three-hour domestic thriller about a judiciary father and his protesting daughters. The retrospective argument is that the long cut is the cut.