
A car mechanic unexpectedly encounters a man with an artificial leg who may have been his torturer in prison. Kidnapping him with the intention of exacting revenge he meets up with fellow victims in order to confirm his suspicions.
This Iranian film won the Palme d’Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival and has received rave reviews, but I found it slow and laboured, though not without a little humour. A ‘tense thriller’ it is not.
I watched this in the revamped Curzon Cinema in Wimbledon. The plushness of the seats, the re-designed foyer (not keen) and the ‘gold-plated’ taps in the cloakroom are perhaps why ticket prices have jumped since I was last there, six months or more ago.



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