Chronicles of Tehran
opens with a panoramic view of the Iranian capital.
We hear the noise of the city.
This will be the only open-air shot of
Chronicles of Tehran
.
The film by Ali Asgari and Alireza Khatami is behind closed doors.
Or rather several 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.
Why promote a foreign culture instead of giving your child an Iranian first name?
A young man comes to collect his driving license.
The interview turns into an interrogation.
He is ordered to undress to reveal the tattoos that cover his body.
An unemployed man applies for a job.
The interview turns into humiliation.
The protagonists' interlocutors remain off-screen.
From time to time we see a hand enter the frame but we never see…
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