Based on a true story, “Maria” is an Iranian noir thriller that will remind many of Gaspar Noe's films, despite the fact that in the end, it is a rather different animal. The movie premiered in Tokyo where it won the Asian Future Best Film Award.
Maria is screening at Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema
A young woman falls from a footbridge onto the car of Farhad, a young film director, on his wedding day. As his mother, Zohreh, pressures him to ask the family of the girl for some compensation, he gets to know the background of the girl a bit more, while it is soon revealed that she was supposed to play the role his wife-to-be, Parisa, eventually had in an upcoming movie. Soon, Farhad becomes obsessed with finding out why the girl committed suicide, and eventually everyone around him are sucked into his research.
Maria is screening at Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema
A young woman falls from a footbridge onto the car of Farhad, a young film director, on his wedding day. As his mother, Zohreh, pressures him to ask the family of the girl for some compensation, he gets to know the background of the girl a bit more, while it is soon revealed that she was supposed to play the role his wife-to-be, Parisa, eventually had in an upcoming movie. Soon, Farhad becomes obsessed with finding out why the girl committed suicide, and eventually everyone around him are sucked into his research.
- 2/15/2024
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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