Virtual Cinema: Sunless Shadows
In an Iranian juvenile detention center, a group of adolescent girls are serving time for having murdered their father, husband or another male family member.
(NR, 74 min.)
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The follow-up to Oskouei’s critically acclaimed Starless Dreams (2016), Sunless Shadows takes another look at the lives of teenage girls in an Iranian juvenile detention center. But this time the focus is narrowed: each of the film’s principal subjects is serving time for the murder of a male family member. One by one, Oskouei invites them to go into a room alone, push the red button on the camera and address their accomplices or their victims.
With this new confessional approach combined with the ever-deepening relationships he has with his subjects, Oskouei presents a picture of the disenfranchised in this aggressively male-dominated society and of the prison that is their shelter from it. [The Cinema Guild]
Director: Mehrdad Oskouei
Genre: Documentary
Languages: Persian w/ English Subtitles
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"Oskouei's documentary presents an agonizing view of patriarchal power in public and private life, law and custom alike."
— Richard Brody, New Yorker
"Quietly but pointedly interrogates the notion of victimhood, while tacitly letting a damning essay on Iranian gender politics and hierarchies emerge through the words of [its] subjects. 'Sunless Shadows' never gives off the impression of extracting feelings from its subjects: Rather, it receptively gives them a platform they've hitherto been denied."
— Guy Lodge, Variety
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