Moral thriller auscultating the dilemma of former prisoners tempted to take revenge on their torturer, A simple accident It was Coronado Palma d’Or this Saturday, May 24 at the Cannes Film Festival. A strong political sign. This film filmed in the concealment of the Iranian dissident filmmaker Jafar Panahi is a frontal attack against the Tehran authorities.
The “simple accident” ofA simple accidentIn theaters on September 10, it refers to a collision of the banal road. After hitting an animal during the night, Egybal knocks on the door of an industrial site in the hope of repairing their car, where their pregnant daughter and wife expect.
Inside the building, Vahid freezes immediately. The voice of the motorist and the noise created by friction on the field of the prosthesis of his leg persuad him that he is dealing with his former jailer, a torturer nicknamed “Guibole” or “the crypt” who made him suffer the worst abuse. “It took me everything. I am an inconvenience,” summarizes Vahid.
It is proposed to follow the motorist, kidnap him in the street and take him to his truck with the firm intention of making an unbearable ending. But Egyhbal Nie and Vahid are taken by doubt: Did you really find the man who destroyed his life or is he violating an innocent in the process of being a father for the second time?
Panting
To see clearly, Vahid embeds in his truck other victims of “La Guibole”, including a woman with a wedding dress, which will wandering around the city, spreading fractures excavated by persecutions and temptation of private revenge.
Hamid, one of the members of this impressive equipped, wants to end the kidnapped without any other form of judgment, but others doubt, for fear of acting as the SEIDES of the Islamic Republic. “If you are buried, you will also bury your ideals,” says Shiva, who suffered violations in prison and colllation drills.
“Is the question that arises, basically, should we give them the same? Do you have to enter this circle of violence or not?” Summary Jafar Panahi in an interview with AFP.
“Little healthy authority”
Throughout the film, the fragments of a country have been revealed where a popular revolt has been revealed hard. At the end of 2022, mass demonstrations shook Iran after the death of young Mahsa Amini, arrested due to a badly adjusted Islamic veil.
In A simple accident The two main actresses have the hair in the wind and we see quietly, in the streets of a city that we assume that it is Tehran, other women leave their candles.
“My problem is not individuals. None of the figures of this Islamic Republic is (…) a problem that tells me,” said Jafar Panahi. “What matters to me is how (…) we can get to the day that nobody allows us to tell us how to dress, what movies to do, what clothes to wear or what food eats.” “No one has the right to exercise this unhealthy authority.”
Second Iranian palm
Before even entering Palma d’Or’s career, Jafar Panahi had caused a feeling for his simple presence in Cannes. For fifteen years and his conviction for “propaganda against the regime”, he had not been able to leave his country to attend one of the film festivals that covered him with distinctions (two golden brown in Berlin, three awards in Cannes, another in Venice).
No one knows what Fate will reserve the Tehran authorities after his eleventh feature film, which has already been imprisoned twice in Iran (86 days in 2010, almost seven months between 2022 and 2023).
Jafar Panahi is the second Iranian to win the palm after Abbas Kiarostami to The taste of cherry (1997). Last year, another Iranian, Mohammad Rasooulof, had a special prize for another movie in flames, Wild fig seeds. He arrived illegally in Cannes, then chose exile.
Source: BFM TV
