Our review of Chronicles of Tehran: Ubu in Iran. An enlightening vision of Iranian society through nine skits which point out the ambient totalitarianism.
The film by Ali Asgari and Alireza Khatami is behind closed doors. Nine vignettes. Nine slices of life staged according to an immutable system. A sequence shot. A fixed camera. A character filmed head-on. A man declares the birth of his son. David? The first name is prohibited. The employee refuses to record it.