By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Jafar Panahi
Starring: Bakhtiyar Panjeei | Jafar Panahi | Mina Kavani | Narges Delaram | Vahid Mobasseri
Original language title: Khers nist
Year: 2023
Running time: 106
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20205236/reference/
Diane says: “NO BEARS is the latest from Jafar Panahi, the outlawed Iranian director. I’m still wondering about the tone of the film: I took much of it to be hilarious satire, but I’m not sure that it actually is. And there is true tragedy in it. The structure is a major highlight: a film within a film, and figuring out how the two mirror each other is fun to contemplate. Panahi’s alter ego, a director trying to shoot a movie remotely, via laptop, comes across as an honest self-critique.