A striking blend of raw realism and poetic lyricism.
TIME OUT

An austerely beautiful parable…This is a deeply considered and wonderfully composed film…Rafi Pitts has made a film that aspires to distill the eternal truths of myth from a contemporary narrative and compound these into visual poetry. The result is impressive and rewarding.
THE GUARDIAN
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Although non-political, this frosty window into a country that has become almost closed to Western eyes, easily conveys the futility of winning hearts and minds through rhetoric. In purely cinematic terms, it has a quiet, stark beauty and a fragility of construction as one character unknowingly supplants another only to repeat a cycle that has as its end in unthinkable personal despair. It is a style that is not easy to relate to but one that is as fresh and crisp as anything that has come out of a land that cinema has sometimes almost forgotten.
EYE FOR FILM

Pitts is unafraid to break the Iranian taboo of representing sexual desire on celluloid
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