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Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine (2000)
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Original name: بوی کافور، عطر یاس
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Death surrounds Bahman, a director who hasn't made a film in 24 years (he can't get past the censors). He's working on a documentary, for Japanese TV, on Iranian burial practices. On the anniversary of his wife's death, a hitchhiker tells him a story of spousal abuse and infant mortality, he discovers that someone has been buried in his plot next to his wife, and he needs the help of his attorney, a well-connected fixer. He dreams of death, even as he investigates it for his film. His niece's husband, a well-known writer, fails to return home; he searches hospitals for an unclaimed body. His heart disease is flaring up. Is he prepared for death? Is that all that's left?
Style:
psychological, rough, serious, tense, realistic, black comedy, dark comedy
Plot:
family relations, life is a bitch, tradition, sudden death, iranian, filmmaking, anniversary, death in the family, unfulfillment, performer's life, dealing with death, curses spells and rituals, lawyer, death, sheik, mother, actor, director, ritual, funeral, funeral home, loss of wife, death of wife, dead child, mother son relationship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
iran, middle east
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Story:
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