The film becomes a haunting exploration on the many meanings and purposes of clothing in human life.
It sees Béla Tarr’s notoriously slow-roving camera-eye taking in the murder-and-money intrigue of a dark, unspecified port city.
The film Secret Sunshine differs from its predecessors by burying its fomenting despair within a more mundane narrative.
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What occurs throughout the trial are acts of resistance, both active and passive.
Both beautifully raw and willfully abstruse, the film invites any number of approaches to understanding it.
Slant spoke with Zahedi about the dual challenges of serving his subject and his audience.