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It Was Just an Accident (2025)

Directed by Jafar Panahi

It Was Just an Accident

I guess the revenge movie is just the genre of our day. I keep imagining that it's been mapped out, well trodden, and done with, and I keep being surprised.

Characters that seems almost like caricatures, but are quite effective at conveying their aspect of the whole. Startlingly funny for most of the film, before the weight of its personal history begins to weigh down on it and it is difficult to squeeze out a laugh. The talky sequences are quite theatrical, almost like in a stage play, but the camerawork is perfectly calibrated to them, so they do not feel as if they are going on.

This all sounds very measured but I loved it. As the credits rolled, the theater was as quiet as it has been since I've started coming here. I wept at several points.