The hidden depths of COVID-19 are plumbed by arthouse headliners Jafar Panahi, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, David Lowery, Laura Poitras, Dominga Sotomayor, Anthony Chen and Malik Vitthal in seven off…
It was perhaps inevitable that someone would organize an international grab bag of auteurs reflecting on the world’s COVID-19 crisis in 2020. While there have already been documentaries likeThe Year of the Everlasting Storm
chooses a global approach. Its bow in Cannes in the Special Screenings sidebar is amply justified by two whimsical exercises in art house cinema directed by Jafar Panahi and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. The other tales are quirky but mixed in impact. Panahi opens the parade in person with his personal domestic lockdown story, in which a giant pet iguana called Iggy features prominently. Shot in the director’s luminous apartment in Tehran, where he spent many years of house arrest pre-COVID courtesy of the Iranian authorities, the 19-minute tale centers around his family’s emotional reactions to being separated from each other. With typical humor, Panahi describes how his aging mother turns up at their door dressed head to foot in PPE.
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