Simin , a demure, acerbic young Iranian woman, is a government pawn, although she doesn’t know it yet. As an employee of the U.S. Census Bureau, she drives around her small, unnamed town, knocking on doors and asking whoever lives there increasingly intrusive questions. “What is your name?” “How many people live in this household?” “Now, tell me, what was the last dream you had?” Some of her interviewees are eager to share, immediately diving into detailed stories with vivid imagery.
Simin’s world changes when she’s asked by her boss, Nancy , to take on a big assignment: to infiltrate an Iraqi colony of former revolutionaries and gather information on their dreams. Although she accepts the job with little hesitation, the visit destabilizes Simin, who spends the rest of the film trying to come to terms with her ambivalent feelings about the United States.
, in particular, does a marvelous job at capturing Simin’s inner turmoil and general volatility. Perfectly timed smirks and seemingly uncharacteristic flashes of rage undercut any viewer expectations that the film will follow a predictable, or readily understandable, path.feels like a series of loosely connected vignettes.
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