Moments of innocence(Noon va Goldoon)
Iran 1996. Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf. Color, in Farsi with English subtitles. 75 mins.
- Fact meets fiction in the most intriguing fashion in this Mohsen Makhmalbaf's film . This captivating
- follow-up to his acclaimed Salaam Cinema (1995), which told the stories of ordinary Iranians who
- want to become movie stars, is based on an incident from the Iranian screenwriter and director's youth.
- At age 17-while a member of an anti-Shah militant group-Makhmalbaf attacked a policeman in an
- attempt to steal his gun. He stabbed the officer with a knife and took a bullet in return. The policeman
- went to the hospital; Makhmalbaf went to a torture chamber hosted by the dreaded SAVAK secret police.
- He stayed there until the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Twenty years later, the filmmaker placed an ad in the
- paper to recruit actors for Salaam Cinema. The same wounded officer responded to the ad. In A Moment
- of Innocence, the victim and the assailant both get the chance to tell their side of the story. In the process,
- they exorcise the demons of their past while examining how film and memory shape our perceptions.
- The result ha s been hailed as a sly, witty film with a script honed to razor sharpness and carefully
- hewn characters.
Runtime:110 minutes
Type: Family film
Language:Farsi with English subtitles
