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Mantagheye Bohrani (2023)

Drama | 99 minutes
3,50 17 votes

Genre: Drama / Scifi

Duration: 99 minuten

Alternative titles: Critical Zone / منطقه بحرانی

Country: Iran / Germany

Directed by: Ali Ahmadzade

Stars: Amir Pousti, Shirin Abedinirad and Maryam Sadeghiyan

IMDb score: 6,0 (675)

Releasedate: 10 August 2023

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Mantagheye Bohrani plot

Amir leads a lonely existence. With his dog as his only company, he drives through Tehran at night selling drugs, while at the same time caring for lost souls like a modern prophet. He drives aimlessly through the streets of a city with no future, using his GPS as a guide.

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mrklm

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Amir [Saba Bagheri] is a wandering, lonely soul in Tehran. When he is at home he talks to his dog, his route planner tells him how he can deliver drugs to his customers with his 'taxi'. Always one-way traffic. Except with the passengers, with whom he frantically tries to have a personal conversation while smoking hash. Hypnotic tragicomedy with a tour de force from Bagheri, but the absolute highlight is the ride with his supplier [Maryam Sadeghian], a stewardess who goes completely crazy under the influence of cocaine (almost literally). Wry comic drama with an intelligent analysis of Iranian society, especially with regard to the role of women. Jafar Pahani's Taxi Tehran meets Martin Scorcese's Bringing Out The Dead.

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hvdriel

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What a start: an ambulance drives through a tunnel network to its destination, unloading medicines for a bleak existence (packages with drugs) that are picked up by a large number of men, one of whom the film follows in his car.

The (self-professed impotent) Amin - dealer, taxi driver, talk-phone and medicine man - lives alone with his dog, which he lets satisfy on his leg - a role that is later taken over by his female drug supplier in his car. After having prepared the drugs at home and fed the animal, the car journey through night-time Tehran begins. Amin drives to places in the city on seemingly random directions from the route planner in his car, a role that is later taken over briefly by a concerned mother whose son is ill. He delivers drugs and he talks to and listens to (female) customers. Finally, he arrives home again: destination reached.

The clandestinely shot film is more or less experimental in its design: slow, accelerated, confused, impulsive, quick-witted and (dis)humorous, in keeping with Amin's all-night weed-smoking ways, and paints a bleak and merciless picture of contemporary Iran, in which much is possible underground, and - for those who want it - of life in 2024 in general.

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HerbieD

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Definitely one of the better movies of recent times...

It reminded me very much of the work of Jim Jarmusch.

Sadness, urban jungle, pain, survival and hopelessness predominate in modern Tehran with its 20 million inhabitants.

Fantastic camera work and sober use of colours and light make this film a kind of surreal docudrama about the drug-dealing Amir who tries to survive, despite the lack of perspective.

In my opinion a real pearl in the sea of celluloid!!!

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