SUBTRACTION
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Filmmaker Mani Haghighi (A DRAGON ARRIVES!, 2018's PIG) was recently prevented from traveling to London after speaking out in support of the protests in the wake of the death of Mahsa Amini. Haghighi's latest, SUBTRACTION, is a mind-bending, slow-burn thriller, not overtly political but nonetheless zeitgeisty in its obsession with secrecy and surveillance. Farzaneh (Taraneh Alidoosti, who herself was recently arrested for supporting the protests), a Tehran driving instructor and mother-to-be, spots her husband Jalal (Navid Mohammadzadeh) entering a posh apartment building. Suspecting an affair, she confronts him, but he has an airtight alibi. Concerned, Jalal investigates the apartment himself, where he meets a woman named Bita who is the spitting image of Farzaneh, and whose husband is a dead ringer for him. The two couples, similar in appearance but stratified socially, are drawn together into a dangerous dance of intrigue. Official Selection, 2022 Toronto and London film festivals. DIR/SCR Mani Haghighi; SCR Amir Reza Koohestani; PROD Majid Motalebi. France/Iran, 2022, color, 107 min. In Persian with English subtitles. NOT RATED
AFI Member passes accepted.
Run Time: 107 Minutes
Opening Date: Sunday, February 05, 2023
Genre: Mystery drama