| Brief Description: | Shockingly forthright in its view of the social and economic problems
of the post-Shah era, The Peddler uses a different cameraman and
different style for each of three short tales set among the poor of
contemporary Tehran. The first episode follows a kindly but naive
couple who want someone to adopt their newborn daughter. The second,
an astonishing mix of absurdist comedy and the supernatural, concerns
a mentally unstable man who lives with his mother in a ramshackle
apartment. The final section draws on the American gangster film to
show the last hours of a peddler suspected of betraying his friends.
Farsi with English subtitles. |
