An Iranian London minicab driver is caught between two worlds in Mitra Tabrizian’s striking feature debutThis haunting debut feature from photographer and film-maker Mitra Tabrizian is set amid London’s Iranian community during the Arab spring of 2011.
Centring on a melancholy figure caught between his former home and his current lonely life, it’s an arresting portrait of displaced struggles that moves almost inexorably from observational drama to eerie quasi-thriller.
At its heart is a mesmerising (and often wordless) performance by Shahab Hosseini, who proved so magnetic in Asghar Farhadi’s 2017 Oscar-winner The Salesman.
Adept at conveying weighty emotional conflicts through minimal physical gestures (his kind but careworn face speaks a thousand words), Hosseini holds the audience’s attention as Tabrizian’s elliptical, diasporic drama unfolds mysteriously around him.There’s a distant echo of Robert De Niro in Hosseini’s Gholam, a nocturnal minicab driver whose variously
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