Cinema—Journey/A Wedding Suit

Loneliness and the experience of being orphaned, yet yearning for care and connection, lie at the heart of these two powerful films from Bahram Beyzaie and Abbas Kiarostami.

In Journey (Safar), two teenagers from the shanty towns of southern Tehran travel to the newly built suburbs, searching for one of the boy's parents. The journey itself transcends the boy’s personal aims. Journey masterfully weaves in a reflection on the history of cinema through allusions and visual citations.

A Wedding Suit (Lebasi Bara-ye Arousi) also presents a disillusionment with the world, through the eyes of young boys. The suit becomes a lens that shows the the loneliness and anxieties of youth, in a society indifferent to them, where their sexual, vocational, and social aspirations are stifled.

These films offer lessons in cinematic modernity from two leading figures of the Iranian New Wave, Bahram Beyzaie and Abbas Kiarostami.

We will have a discussion about the films at Barbican’s café after the screening.

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