SUBTRACTION | TAFRIGH

IRAN, FRANCE | 2022 | COLOR | DCP | 108’ | FARSI

On a rainy day, a pregnant driving instructor sees her husband going on a bus, while he was supposed to be away for business. But what starts off as a drama of spousal deceit becomes an inconceivable thriller, since the couple has its...doppelganger in the city. The ghost of Farhadi meets Hitchcock, while Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Enemy’ strays in the world of Peter Weir’s ‘The Last Wave’. And the most consistently in-form national cinema today suffers on its realistic body the attack of a philosophical fantasy, depicting the world, expressing class/personal truths, daring racial criticism and through the cataclysmic cracks the rays of an Apocalyptic light. Not a small thing. I.D.

DIRECTOR: Mani Haghighi
SCREENWRITERS: Amir Reza Koohestani, Mani Haghighi
DoP: Morteza Najafi
MUSIC: Ramin Kousha
EDITOR: Meysam Molaei
PRINCIPAL CAST: Taraneh Alidoosti, Navid Mohammadzadeh, Esmail Poor-Reza, Farham Azizi

MANI HAGHIGHI
Iranian filmmaker, born in 1969. He studied Philosophy at McGill University in Canada. He returned to Iran in 2001, and worked in Advertising and Documentary, while in 2006 he co-wrote with Asghar Farhadi the screenplay for ‘Fireworks Wednesday’. A unique voice among the troubled Iranian filmmaker community.

FILMOGRAPHY
2022 Subtraction
2018 Pig
2016 50 Kilos of Sour Cherries
2016 A Dragon Arrives!
2012 Modest Reception
2008 Canaan
2006 Men at Work
2004 Abadan