Crimson Gold (2004)
Hard-to-shake drama from Iran about a pizza delivery driver and his inexorable spiral into despair at his low-class status. Slow to start, but it's only setting the stage for the gradual revealing of its class-war thematics. It continues to build until an extraordinary setpiece where a distraught (and well-off) customer invites the pizza man into his massive apartment. There's also a strange, fascinating Kafkaesque scene outside of a house party that adds to the film's sense of something fishy in the state of Iran. (In the words of Jello Biafra, "If someone came for you one night and dragged you away, do you really think your neighbors would even care?") Disquieting, excellent; makes me wonder why I don't watch more Iranian films, really.
Grade: B+
Hard-to-shake drama from Iran about a pizza delivery driver and his inexorable spiral into despair at his low-class status. Slow to start, but it's only setting the stage for the gradual revealing of its class-war thematics. It continues to build until an extraordinary setpiece where a distraught (and well-off) customer invites the pizza man into his massive apartment. There's also a strange, fascinating Kafkaesque scene outside of a house party that adds to the film's sense of something fishy in the state of Iran. (In the words of Jello Biafra, "If someone came for you one night and dragged you away, do you really think your neighbors would even care?") Disquieting, excellent; makes me wonder why I don't watch more Iranian films, really.
Grade: B+
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