Let’s watch Palme d’Or Winner “IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT" @ FACETS + discussion
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It Was Just an Accident (Palme d’Or Winner at Cannes) is the first movie that Jafar Panahi directed since he was released in 2023 after spending seven months in Tehran’s prison. It Was Just an Accident is a tragicomedy but doesn’t fit into a tidy categorical box. It’s a fiction that its writer-director Jafar Panahi has drawn straight from life, his own included, and which unpredictably mixes tones and story types. It’s a drama about retribution, a comedy about collective action (and action in general), a low-mileage road movie and a slow-boiling ethical thriller. It’s a cry from the heart, a comic howl in the dark and one of the year’s essential movies. The premise — victimized men and women turn the tables on their victimizer — is the stuff of law and culture, daydreams and nightmares.
If you are not familiar with Panahi’s films and want to understand why he ended up in jail more than once, watch his “THE CIRCLE” on how Iranian society views women.
YOU CAN BUY YOUR TICKET HERE: https://facets.org/programs/it-was-just-an-accident/
We’ll meet in the lobby at 6.40. After the film, we’ll discuss the film in Facets’ lounge with a drink (or soda).