“Subtraction,” from idiosyncratic Iranian helmer-writer Mani Haghighi is a tense Hitchcockian thriller set in Tehran, where a heavy, non-stop rainfall signals a lingering malaise. There, a young couple come across their doppelgängers. The film premiered at the Toronto festival.
The idea for the plot grew out of the helmer’s long-ago trip to Southwest Iran to look at places where the Iran-Iraq war took place.
“It was a hot summer day and I wandered into a local mosque to cool down and get some rest,” Haghighi says. “The people who ran the mosque had put on an exhibition of photographs from the war years. I was casually looking at these pictures and I was suddenly transfixed by one of them. It was a picture of me, in military uniform, badly wounded in the neck, being carried by two other soldiers. As one of the characters says in ‘Subtraction,’ ‘It’s...
The idea for the plot grew out of the helmer’s long-ago trip to Southwest Iran to look at places where the Iran-Iraq war took place.
“It was a hot summer day and I wandered into a local mosque to cool down and get some rest,” Haghighi says. “The people who ran the mosque had put on an exhibition of photographs from the war years. I was casually looking at these pictures and I was suddenly transfixed by one of them. It was a picture of me, in military uniform, badly wounded in the neck, being carried by two other soldiers. As one of the characters says in ‘Subtraction,’ ‘It’s...
- 9/21/2022
- by Alissa Simon
- Variety Film + TV
A Pulitzer Prize-winning BBC cameraman was killed and a BBC producer injured when they stepped on land mines while filming in Kurdish northern Iraq, the pubcaster said Thursday. BBC director of news Richard Sambrook told reporters that Iranian-born Kaveh Golestan, 52, was killed instantly Wednesday afternoon in the Kurdish town of Kifri after stepping out of his car and onto a mine. BBC producer Stuart Hughes was also caught in the blast and suffered a foot injury, while the BBC's Tehran correspondent, Jim Muir, and a local translator were unhurt save for cuts and bruises. Hughes has since been taken to an American military hospital in Sulaymaniya in northern Iraq for treatment. Golestan, who is survived by his wife and 19-year-old son, won a Pulitzer for his work during the Iranian revolution. He had worked as a BBC freelance cameraman since 2001. "Kaveh Golestan was an outstanding photojournalist who worked in support of freedom of expression in his native Iran and elsewhere and was well-known to many Western news organizations," Sambrook said. "Our deepest sympathy goes to his family and friends. This once again illustrates the dangers faced by news teams covering the war in Iraq." The news came as Stewart Purvis, chief executive of British commercial news provider ITN, accused U.S. and British military leaders of concealing the details surrounding the death of veteran ITN reporter Terry Lloyd two weeks ago in what ITN claims was a "friendly fire" incident. Lloyd's colleagues, cameraman Fred Nerac and Lebanese translator Hussein Osman, are still missing and feared dead.
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