Is ‘Emilia Pérez’ Based on a True Story?
Written and directed by French filmmaker Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez tells the story of a Mexican named lawyer, Rita (Zoe ...
Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof pays a high price of the art of resistance
Just as Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof completed shooting his 10th film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, in April last year he was forced to flee his home in Tehran where he faced an eight-year ...
‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’ movie review: Mohammad Rasoulof’s study in asphyxiation is a masterpiece
Mohammad Rasoulof's anti-authoritarian treatise defies categorization, a searing indictment of Iran's theocracy.