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“Arash (Misagh Zareh) hits a button on a coffee machine, staring at the brown liquid shooting down.”
“Zareh’s lead turn is matched by Daghigh, Sadaf Asgari, and Jamshidnejad.”
“Grade: A- “A Bit of Light” premiered at the 2026 Venice Film Festival.”
““There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide,” he wrote in “The Myth of Sisyphus”.”
“In the end, Maziyar, Mahsa and Massi uphold the caring wisdom of the script.”
“It joins the mini canon of day-in-the-life movies that could well be the character’s final day.”
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“He has the power of rational speech and the capacity for boundaried connections with people.”
“In other words: there is a gentle and elusive lifeforce permeating this uncompromising depiction of a man who wants to die.”
“We are dropped into the middle of a difficult conversation taking place in a sparsely decorated bachelor pad in Tehran.”
“Not to mention the fact that the plants he’s trying to rehome are not particularly appealing to anyone.”
“Youngest sister Mahsa is a yoga teacher, while older sister Massi is semi-estranged from him.”
“Their different flavors of internalized conflict upon hearing the news lead to nuanced emotional weather.”
“He frames his confession as an ethical duty.”
“An exalted combination of careful characterization and layered performance leads to one gently gripping scene after another.”
“This is a restrained Iranian answer to Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life,” no less affecting because its climax holds more ambiguity than absolution.”
“But how can they find the right words?”
“Asgari chooses details over melodrama at every moment, framing small things to an enlivening effect so that they land like a hug on a body that hasn’t been held in years.”
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“He returns to the table where his shaken younger brother is clearly grappling with a revelation.”
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