Product Details
- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: KS2185
- Format: DVD
- UPC: 760137162292
- Street Date: 10/08/24
- PreBook Date: 09/03/24
- Label: KimStim »
- Genre: Drama
- Run Time: 77 mins
- Number of Discs: 1
- Audio: STEREO
- Year of Production: 2023
- Region Code: 0
- Box Lot: 30
- Territory: US
- Language: Persian
Cast & Crew
- Actor: Majid Salehi
- Actor: Gohar Kheyrandish
- Actor: Bahram Ark
- Director: Ali Asgari
- Director: Alireza Khatami
Product Assets
Terrestrial Verses
Comprised of nine vignettes, Terrestrial Verses sheds light on the everyday struggles of ordinary citizens in Iran, as they grapple with oppression.
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In Tehran, a new father seeks to register the name (insufficiently Islamic, he is told) of his newborn son; a 20-something rideshare driver caught on camera without a hijab attempts to retrieve her impounded car; a man with poem tattoos applies for a driver's license; an elderly woman pleads with the police for the return of her beloved dog. This taut, pulsing drama -- composed of nine deceptively simple, single-take vignettes, each featuring an ordinary Iranian citizen facing an unseen bureaucrat -- brilliantly incarnates the absurdity, hypocrisy, and seeds of defiance that belie authoritarian control.
Media
Sales Points
- NY Times Critic's Pick with a 95% Tomatometer Score on Rotten Tomatoes
- Won 9 and Nominated for another 10 International Awards including Cannes, Rotterdam, London, Chicago, Vancouver Film Festivals
- Fresh from Theatrical Release in over 30 Cities across the US
Press Quotes
ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANT AND PROVOCATIVE FILMS TO EMERGE FROM IRAN RECENTLY. Intrepid and original. A scathing critique of the poisoned power relations in the Islamic Republic, relations that corrupt interactions by people at every level of Iranian society.
—Godfrey Cheshire, RogerEbert.com
CRITIC'S PICK. GRIPPING. Because each vignette is no more than a few minutes long and consists of Kafkaesque conversations that border on the absurd... the cumulative approaches a thriller.
—Alissa Wilkinson, The New York Times
A thoroughly modern work of bracing concision, elegance, and blistering deadpan humor.
—Sheri Linden , The Hollywood Reporter
