Hezardastan of Memory: Ali Hatami and the Literary Soul of Iranian Cinema
Listen to the reed, how it tells a tale, complaining of separations– so begins Rumi’s Masnavi, and so, in spirit, begins the cinema of Ali Hatami. In the flicker of film frames and the hush of an old Iranian tea house, Hatami’s work sings of separation: the distance between a modern nation and its cultural …
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