Iranian avant-garde theatre director Homayoun Ghanizadeh, after years of staging plays, decided to try his hand also at a different medium, to a maverick and pleasingly dotty result. “The Hairy Tale” (Maskharehbaz) however is not his first rendezvous with the tenth muse, as he starred in Mani Haghighi’s “The Dragon Arrives!” (2016), which screened in Berlinale’s main competition and in 2018 he directed the short movie “Irreversible”.
“A Hairy Tale” screened at the 35th Warsaw Film Festival
Ghanizadeh’s debut feature, which premiered internationally at the 35th Warsaw Film Festival where it was awarded for the script, in the catalogue description is labeled as a “black comedy”. The director skillfully juggles with dark humor paraphernalia and joins them with a dream-like convention, use of specific camera angles, CGI and color palette, drawing parallels with Jean-Pierre Jeunet. But behind the facade of entertaining form, he sneaks in the bitter observations and addresses important social issues.
“A Hairy Tale” screened at the 35th Warsaw Film Festival
Ghanizadeh’s debut feature, which premiered internationally at the 35th Warsaw Film Festival where it was awarded for the script, in the catalogue description is labeled as a “black comedy”. The director skillfully juggles with dark humor paraphernalia and joins them with a dream-like convention, use of specific camera angles, CGI and color palette, drawing parallels with Jean-Pierre Jeunet. But behind the facade of entertaining form, he sneaks in the bitter observations and addresses important social issues.
- 11/8/2019
- by Joanna Kończak
- AsianMoviePulse
The 35th Warsaw Film Festival has concluded and the list of winners includes a few Asian and Asian-related titles.
Grand Prix was awarded to Georgian movie “Shindisi” portraying real-life events that happened in 2008 during Russo-Georgian war, when Russian forces violated the ceasefire. It goes beyond military affairs, focusing also on the civilians, who with simple humane courage and compassion attempt to save lives of several wounded Georgian soldiers. Dito Tsintsadze, who helmed the movie, also took honours of the best director. “Shindisi” is a Georgian candidate for the Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category.
A Hairy Tale
Iranian “A Hairy Tale” by Homayoun Ghanizadeh got the Special Jury Award for the Best Script. The renowned avant-garde theatre director in his debut feature skillfully plays with the form and conventions. Under the facade of a black comedy about eccentric employees of a barber shop, he tells a story...
Grand Prix was awarded to Georgian movie “Shindisi” portraying real-life events that happened in 2008 during Russo-Georgian war, when Russian forces violated the ceasefire. It goes beyond military affairs, focusing also on the civilians, who with simple humane courage and compassion attempt to save lives of several wounded Georgian soldiers. Dito Tsintsadze, who helmed the movie, also took honours of the best director. “Shindisi” is a Georgian candidate for the Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category.
A Hairy Tale
Iranian “A Hairy Tale” by Homayoun Ghanizadeh got the Special Jury Award for the Best Script. The renowned avant-garde theatre director in his debut feature skillfully plays with the form and conventions. Under the facade of a black comedy about eccentric employees of a barber shop, he tells a story...
- 10/25/2019
- by Joanna Kończak
- AsianMoviePulse
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