Word: ershadi
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Dates: during 1998-1998
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...named Badii (Homayoun Ershadi) drives around Tehran looking for someone who will do a little job for a lot of money. The profane and sacred task, we eventually learn, is to bury Badii if he is successful in a suicide attempt and to rescue him if he is not. The story is starkly allusive--we never learn why Badii wants to kill himself--and most of the "action" takes place in the cab of Badii's Range Rover, but the film isn't cramped or schematic. The talk flows persuasively; the picture pulses with art and humanity...
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