Our review of Leila and Her Brothers: The Clan of Iranians

2022-05-25T16:29:52.497Z

IN COMPETITION – The director of The Law of Tehran surprises with an incandescent family fresco. After the relentless thriller The Law of Tehran , the young Iranian director Saeed Roustaee returns with a radically different film, Leila and her brothers . This family fresco of 2h45 (which would have benefited from being a little tighter) shows an incredible sense of the image and the spectacular. From the first scenes, the film captures its audience and won't let go. Three sequences intertwine

After the relentless thriller

The Law of Tehran

, the young Iranian director Saeed Roustaee returns with a radically different film,

Leila and her brothers

This family fresco of 2h45 (which would have benefited from being a little tighter) shows an incredible sense of the image and the spectacular.

From the first scenes, the film captures its audience and won't let go.

Three sequences intertwine masterfully.

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Saeed Roustaee begins his film by delicately approaching his camera to a solitary old man, Esmail, who is smoking a cigarette in the sun.

This shrewd patriarch with a plaintive gaze goes to a place of prayer to talk to his cousins whom he admires but who do not return this naive veneration to him, to say the least.