Director: Mani Haghighi
Screenplay: Mani Haghighi, A. R. Koohestani
Cinematographer: H. Behmanesh
Editing: Hayedeh Safiyari
Sound: Vahid Moghaddasi, A. H. Ghasemi
Music: Jeremy Strachan, David Weinkauf
Cast.: Taraneh Alidoosti, Mani Haghighi, Saeed Changizian, Esmail Khalaj, Saber Abar, M. Aghebati, Danial Fathi, Himan Dehghani
Production: Jalal Shamsian
Contact:
Iranian Independents
PO Box : 15875 - 4769
Téhran, Iran
Tel: +98-912 319 8693
Mail: [email protected]
www.iranianindependents.com
Year : 2012
DCP, Color, 100 min,
OV Farsi with English and French electronic subtitles
French Premiere
In Iranian Kurdistan mountain areas, a couple is driving a four-byfour. The car’s boot is full of plastic bags filled with bank notes. The man and the woman heap reproaches on each other, in front of a dumbfounded poor fellow. This couple is entrusted with a mission- we don’t know by whom- to give his huge amount of money to the poor people they’ll meet during their journey. Most of the time people refuse, out of suspicion or pride. Leila or Kaveh (played by director Mani Haghighi) sometimes force them to accept, which could pass for a sadist attitude. Is this a charitable work? A game about pride and temptation? Or a psychotic bet? A crazy comedy or a deep insight on the situation in
Iran and more generally in the world, Modest Reception is an action-packed road movie, a parable of money; money which spoils everything. It is not always so easy to be generous.
