The feature debut of Iranian director Alireza Khatami was a crowning success, with “Oblivion Verses” winning the Orizzonti Award for Best Screenplay, the Fipresci Award for Best Debut Film and the Interfilm Award for Promoting Interreligious Dialogue in Venice, among a number of other international awards.
The story revolves around an elderly, nameless caretaker of a small, rundown morgue and its attached graveyard, both of which, just like the man, are nearing the end of their life span, since the government is about to close down the facility. The man lives a life of endless routine, doing almost the exact same things every day, which include talking to the hearse driver who brings him to work every day, and listening to the gravedigger flirting with widows, as the caretaker counts the people he has buried, who are closing up to a thousand. These are his two sole friends,...
The story revolves around an elderly, nameless caretaker of a small, rundown morgue and its attached graveyard, both of which, just like the man, are nearing the end of their life span, since the government is about to close down the facility. The man lives a life of endless routine, doing almost the exact same things every day, which include talking to the hearse driver who brings him to work every day, and listening to the gravedigger flirting with widows, as the caretaker counts the people he has buried, who are closing up to a thousand. These are his two sole friends,...
- 3/31/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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