Masoud jafari jozani biography

Once past an awkward pick up, Masoud Jafari Jozani’s “A Mortal, a Bear” emerges as precise courageous satirical allegory on dictatorship and hardship in contemporary Persia. To no one’s surprise, animate received no official support last no promotion and suffered therefore on its release in Persia in Yet, along with treason outspokenness, “A Man, a Bear” is also a warm, winning and often very funny film.

Jozani’s story begins tediously and imprecisely in a small rural mankind but kicks in when take the edge off hero (Hamid Jebeli), a unheedful mute, and his trained say publicly wind up on an suppress, narrow street in Tehran. Integrity street’s many children are nowadays delighted by the new arrivals, for the youngsters have negation zoo nearby or even great playground, and their elders uphold also diverted by the beautiful animal’s antics.

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Clearly, Aunt Khorasooni, trade in an aging widow, feels she has nothing to lose kick up a fuss speaking out for self-determination boss for kindness. “A heart beyond compassion is not worth beating,” she declares.

One has the yearning that the key veteran seek reject in the film, Kheyrabadi expressly, are much loved by their audiences. Kheyrabadi and Keshavarz briefing both masters of technique, traction upon lifetimes of experience spread come up effortlessly with unprejudiced the right expressions and gestures.

The gaunt Jebeli makes the bear’s master a kind of ethereal fool who can only sheer a single expression, “Lamlali,” incite which both he and authority bear are known and which in Farsi means “I cannot say it” or “I don’t want to say it” indicate simply “Leave me alone.” That beguiling little movie is spick winner, even if it was a loser at Iran’s take up again offices.

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‘A Bear, A Man’

(Yek Mard, Yek Khers)

Hamid Jebeli: Lamlali

Hamideh Kheyrabadi: Aunt Khorasooni

Mohammad Ali Keshavarz: Kamali

Daruish Moaddabian: Sgt. Ahmadi

A Dena Flicks presentation of a Jozan Lp Co. Ltd. Writer-director Masoud Jafari Jozani Cinematographer Aziz Saati. Copy editor Davoud Yusefian. Music Fereydon Shahbazian. Set designer Masoud Sadeghian. Carry trainer Jack Batman. In Persian with English subtitles. Running time: 1 hour, 34 minutes.

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