Where there was dignity in life there should be dignity in death. So teaches “Antigone.” Sophocles’ Greek tragedy, wherein a young woman holds her own against a tyrant ruler who refuses to bury one of her brothers, endures precisely because its themes remain relevant. Set against the backdrop of the migrant crisis in Serbia, Vuk Rsumovic’s “Dwelling Among the Gods” calls up that archetypal figure to mount a powerful, empathetic portrait of an Afghan woman’s plight in modern-day Serbia, to do right by her brother, her family and herself.
“When we left Afghanistan,” a man tells Nikola (Nikola Ristanovski), a Serbian Farsi translator who’s tasked with helping migrants making their way through Belgrade, “we thought in Europe they would treat us humanely.” The earnestness of the plea, laced with the cynicism of its delivery, serves as an apt introduction to the world Rsumovic is depicting. This is a cruel and unsparing place,...
“When we left Afghanistan,” a man tells Nikola (Nikola Ristanovski), a Serbian Farsi translator who’s tasked with helping migrants making their way through Belgrade, “we thought in Europe they would treat us humanely.” The earnestness of the plea, laced with the cynicism of its delivery, serves as an apt introduction to the world Rsumovic is depicting. This is a cruel and unsparing place,...
- 8/24/2024
- by Manuel Betancourt
- Variety Film + TV
This review for “A Man of Integrity” was first published June 17, 2022, after its debut in New York City.
At a crucial point in Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof’s blistering drama “A Man of Integrity,” a suffering friend of the main character says, “In this country, you’re either oppressor or oppressed. There are no other options.”
In the attempt of his beleaguered protagonist to live a third way — with values, unwilling to give in to corruption’s claws — lies the cloud-covered, Kafka-esque suspense of this seething, tense work.
Rasoulof is himself, to the cinema world, that code-driven figure, having been targeted by his country’s totalitarian regime for arrest (alongside Jafar Panahi in 2010), imprisonment, and a ban on filmmaking, and yet defiantly rolling cameras anyway. “A Man of Integrity” is from 2017 — its success at Cannes that year spurring the confiscation of his passport, and the aforementioned ban — and it...
At a crucial point in Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof’s blistering drama “A Man of Integrity,” a suffering friend of the main character says, “In this country, you’re either oppressor or oppressed. There are no other options.”
In the attempt of his beleaguered protagonist to live a third way — with values, unwilling to give in to corruption’s claws — lies the cloud-covered, Kafka-esque suspense of this seething, tense work.
Rasoulof is himself, to the cinema world, that code-driven figure, having been targeted by his country’s totalitarian regime for arrest (alongside Jafar Panahi in 2010), imprisonment, and a ban on filmmaking, and yet defiantly rolling cameras anyway. “A Man of Integrity” is from 2017 — its success at Cannes that year spurring the confiscation of his passport, and the aforementioned ban — and it...
- 6/24/2022
- by Robert Abele
- The Wrap
A Man Of Integrity (Lerd) Big World Pictures Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net, linked from Rotten Tomatoes by Harvey Karten Director: Mohammad Rasoulof Screenwriter: Mohammad Rasoulof Cast: Reza Akhlaghirad, Soudabeh Beizaee, Nasim Adabi, Zeinab Shabani, Missagh Zareh, Zhila Shahi, Majid Potki Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 5/26/22 Opens: June 17, 2022 In the Middle East, […]
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- 6/12/2022
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
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