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Parviz (2012)
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Original name: پرویز
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Iran
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Parviz has as its increasingly horrifying anti-hero the 50-year-old hulk of a passive-aggressive bachelor son (theater director/activist Haftvan), whose free ride in life screeches to a halt when his miserly widowed father forms a plan to remarry.
Style:
tense, realistic, intense, melancholic, existential, grim, dark comedy
Plot:
loneliness, isolation, father son relationship, alienation, family conflict, middle aged man, passive aggressive behavior, character study, anti hero, revenge, betrayal, power struggle, male protagonist, transformation, identity crisis, moral ambiguity, small community, domestic drama, unsettling, working class, social satire, slice of life, father, psychological drama
Place:
iran, middle east
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Story:
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