Radiograph of a Family

2020

1h 25m

Documentary

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A love story, two different beliefs, a family in the turmoil of Iran’s modern history.

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Phuong Le

Guardian

While the audio re-enactment of Tayi and Hossein's conversations are occasionally overly narrativised, this is a beautifully crafted work of family history with an especially powerful ending.

Rated: 3/5

Jan 18, 2022

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Diego Semerene

Slant Magazine

Radiograph of a Family is an essay film about photographs as barometers of female unhappiness.

May 2, 2021

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Stephen Dalton

Hollywood Reporter

Immersive and lyrical.

Dec 1, 2020

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Carson Timar

Clapper

With a confident and fresh sense of filmmaking alongside a story that overall does connect well enough, this is an easy recommendation.

Feb 22, 2022

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Christopher Llewellyn Reed

Film Festival Today

By focusing her story so intently on the personal cost of generational upheaval, cultural as well as political, she helps make today's Iran a place that anyone ... can understand.

Rated: 4/4

Jul 2, 2021

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Ryan Swen

In Review Online

[The film] invokes a series of wider sociopolitical issues within its shifting style, to both its benefit and its detriment.

Jun 6, 2021

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Firouzeh Khosrovani

Director

Farahnaz Sharifi

Narrator

Soheila Golestani

Mother

Christophe Rezai

Father

Firouzeh Khosrovani

Writer

Bård Kjøge Rønning

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Synopsis

A love story, two different beliefs, a family in the turmoil of Iran’s modern history.

Director: Firouzeh Khosrovani
Producer: Bård Kjøge Rønning, Fabien Greenberg
Screenwriter: Firouzeh Khosrovani
Production Co: Storyline Studios, Antipode Productions, Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG, Rainy Pictures, RTS
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: Persian
Runtime: 1h 25m