![]() ![]() He is greeted at the door by the occupant ( Pourang Nakhayi), who complains that "the women have gone" and he doesn't need the pizza. One night he delivers a stack of pizzas to the penthouse of an apartment building in a wealthy neighborhood. Hussein lives a solitary existence in an untidy little flat, venturing out at night to deliver pizzas. In this case, it is Hussein on his scooter, sometimes with Ali as a passenger. ![]() It was written by Abbas Kiarostami, the best-known Iranian director, and includes his trademark: long, unbroken shots of a character driving somewhere. The director, Jafar Panahi, also made " The Circle," a film showing the impossibility of being a single woman in modern Iran without having a man to explain your status. The film uses Hussein and his life as a lens to look at Tehran today. We learn indirectly that he was wounded in the Iraq-Iran war, and Ali refers to his "medication." Perhaps that accounts for his sphinxlike detachment he acts as little as it is possible to act and yet, paradoxically, we can't take our eyes off him. Hussein, who is engaged to Ali's sister, seems an unlikely candidate for marriage. He believes the rewards should suit the crime you should not put your targets through a great deal of suffering just to relieve them of pocket change. Another man overhears their conversation, assumes they stole the purse and delivers a little lecture on the morality of theft. Its contents are disappointing - a broken gold ring. We meet Ali for the first time in a tea house, where he produces a purse he has just found. He has a friend named Ali ( Kamyar Sheissi). ![]()
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