SANG ET OR

A Téhéran, Hussein abat le propriétaire d’une bijouterie d’un coup de revolver avant de retourner l’arme contre lui.

Working from a script by Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian maestro Jafar Panahi fashions a genre-adjacent thriller of ferocious intensity. Opening with an alarming heist sequence, Crimson Gold trawls the criminal underbelly of postwar Tehran for a fierce critique of the city’s socioeconomic divide.