
"Winner of the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival, Jafar Panahi's gripping It Was Just an Accident may well mark the start of a new chapter in the celebrated Iranian director's career. Since his 2010 imprisonment and subsequent ban from filmmaking, Panahi has been making meta-cinematic movies starring himself. Shot clandestinely in tight and/or remote spaces far from the prying eyes of the authorities, these films (which include Closed Curtain, , and the masterpiece"
"And Panahi understandably isn't abandoning his passions of the last decade-plus: He continues to be obsessed with the elusive nature of truth and the crisis of action in a world where nothing seems certain. In that sense, It Was Just an Accident plays like an ideal melding of the filmmaker Panahi was and the filmmaker he's been forced to become. It's an endlessly fascinating and extraordinarily powerful work."
It Was Just an Accident won the Palme d'Or at Cannes and may signal a new chapter in Jafar Panahi's career. Since his 2010 imprisonment and filmmaking ban Panahi made clandestine meta-cinematic films that blurred documentary and fiction, shot in tight or remote spaces to avoid authorities. Although the ban was lifted in 2022, the film was still shot in secret and edited abroad and remains unlikely to screen in Iran. The plot follows a day when Rashid's family pulls over after hitting a dog and a garage worker, Vahid, becomes convinced Rashid is Eqbal, a torturer nicknamed "Peg Leg." The film blends Panahi's earlier scripted drama style with the oblique, secretive methods developed under repression and continues to interrogate the elusive nature of truth and the crisis of action.
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