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The Absent Director

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In one continuous take, the film follows the various members of a young Iranian theater company during their secret rehearsals of Macbeth at their Director's home in Tehran, while he works with them remotely from Paris via video call. Their dream is to submit the play to the Edinburgh Theater Festival on time, but things get complicated when their personal conflicts escalate, and their hidden agendas come into light. The heated tensions reach their climax when a mysterious tragedy threatens to put their work into a complete halt. The complex layers of their reality are slowly unraveled as the film seamlessly fuses the past with the present, the fiction with the non-fiction, even crossing the bridge to reality with the actors performing as themselves.

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Wendy Ide Screen International 10/09/2021
It's fair to say that the formal approach elevates the slightly pedestrian plotting. Go to Full Review Read all reviews
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Arvand Dashtaray

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Arvand Dashtaray

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Marene van Holk

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Azadeh Mirzaei

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Tahereh Hazaveh

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Diba Khatami

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Synopsis In one continuous take, the film follows the various members of a young Iranian theater company during their secret rehearsals of Macbeth at their Director's home in Tehran, while he works with them remotely from Paris via video call. Their dream is to submit the play to the Edinburgh Theater Festival on time, but things get complicated when their personal conflicts escalate, and their hidden agendas come into light. The heated tensions reach their climax when a mysterious tragedy threatens to put their work into a complete halt. The complex layers of their reality are slowly unraveled as the film seamlessly fuses the past with the present, the fiction with the non-fiction, even crossing the bridge to reality with the actors performing as themselves.
Director
Arvand Dashtaray
Producer
Hossein Akbari
Screenwriter
Naghmeh Samini
Production Co
Virgule Film & Performing Arts Company
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Persian
Runtime
1h 26m