Pig (Khook): Iran 2018. Dir: Mani Haghighi. 108 min. DCP
A serial killer is beheading Iran’s best filmmakers — and blacklisted director Hasan Kasmai, who has a high opinion of himself, is starting to take umbrage! Why hasn’t he been targeted yet? Debuted at the Berlin festival this year, the latest from writer-director Mani Haghighi (A Dragon Arrives!) is a flamboyant, farcical black comedy satirizing artistic ego, gender relations, government censorship, and social-media culture. Hasan Majuni plays pompous, petulant Hasan, now reduced to directing bug-spray ads. Leila Hatami (star of Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation) is his fave actress and mistress Shiva, who’s about to make a movie with Hasan’s biggest rival. Haghighi’s delirious film opens with the murder of Haghighi himself. Cinematographer Mahmoud Kalari also shot A Separation. “A fizzy Day-Glo meta-comedy ... this blizzard of oddity marks Haghighi out as the joker in the Iranian auteur pack, and every gang needs a wildcard” (Jessica Kiang, Variety).
Director Biography:
Born in 1969 in Tehran, Mani Haghighi spent a great deal of his youth studying philosophy and culture. His educational background has given him an astute foundation for satirical filmography and touching on social issues with an air of comedic absurdity.
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Cinematography: Mahmoud Kalari
Production design: Amir Hossein Ghodsi
Editor: Meysam Molaei
Music: Peyman Yazdanian
Main cast: Hasan Majuni, Leila Hatami, Leili Rashidi, Parinaz Izadyar, Mina Jafarzadeh, Aynaz Azarhoosh, Siamak Ansari, Ali Bagheri
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