Woman, life, freedom. Down with theocracy! The slogans shouted in the bloody streets of Tehran over the past year echo through The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Mohammad Rasoulof’s long, heartfelt story of an Iranian family that starts to tear at the seams when Iman’s two daughters are told what he really does at the office. “Do you know your father signs hundreds of death warrants every day?” shouts a young man to the girls a week later, when he is recognized in a remote roadside grocery store.
By that stage, everyone knows what Iman (Missagh Zare) does at the office; his name and address are posted on the internet by dissidents.
Iman seemed like a mild-mannered man when he was first introduced, but now those liberal thugs are coming for him. A man has to act.
A man has to protect his family. Rasoulof has called up every possible genre in service of his subject, which essentially is a sustained condemnation of Iran’s murderous ruling regime.
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