List of Persian/Iranian Events for 2004-01-16

Friday January 16 2004, 7:30PM ( Buy ticket )

> CRIMSON GOLD
(Talaye Sorgh)
(2003) Directed by Jafar Panahi

A dark drama based on a real-life incident, CRIMSON GOLD is director
Jafar Panahi's superb follow-up to THE CIRCLE (2000). The film begins
with a robbery gone terribly wrong, and then backs up to patiently
outline the steps leading to it. Working from a script by his mentor
Abbas Kiarostami, Panahi employs a dramatic visual style that is both
dazzling and hard-edged. Together, the two filmmakers have fashioned
a subtle yet devastating portrait of social inequality and urban
alienation in contemporary Tehran. They are aided in their task by
Hussein Emadeddin, an affectingly natural nonprofessional actor, who
plays the exasperated pizza deliverer driven to violence by hard
times and despair. Producer/Editor: J. Panahi. Screenwriter: Abbas
Kiarosta

Producer: Jafar Panahi. Screenplay: Abbas Kiarostami.
Cinematographer: Hossain Jafarian. Editor: Jafar Panahi. Cast:
Hussein Emadeddin, Kamyar Sheisi, Azita Rayeji, Shahram Vaziri.
Presented in Farsi dialogue with English subtitles. 35mm, 97 min.

CRIMSON GOLD is scheduled to open at the Music Hall Theater, 9036
Wilshire Blvd., on Friday, January 31.