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Farzaneh spots her husband, Jalal, entering an unknown woman's house. When she confronts Jalal, he claims he wasn't in town. Jalal decides to check out the house for himself and meets a woman named Bita, who is the spitting image of Farzaneh.

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Sandra Hall Sydney Morning Herald 02/29/2024
4/5
Somehow, Haghighi translates this ingenious bit of fantasy into a work of social realism. The premise may be incredible but the way it plays out is not. Go to Full Review Richard Brody The New Yorker 01/25/2024
What... renders it an exemplary work of modern cinema isn’t just the way that it achieves large-scale effects through the patient accumulation of small details—it’s also the sense of cinematic subjectivity with which these details are realized. Go to Full Review Alexandra Heller-Nicholas AWFJ.org 08/21/2023
The doppelganger premise of the film grants Haghighi space to explore the depths of his thematic interest in identity, gender and violence in contemporary Iran, rendering Subtraction a powerful and intelligent exercise in genre play. Go to Full Review Louis Skye (Ronita Roy Mohan) Women Write About Comics Aug 21
I’m delighted I watched Subtraction. This film had me guessing at every turn! I couldn’t predict what the characters would do and what the consequences of those actions would be. It was a bonkers — and sometimes horrifying — ride and I was entranced. Go to Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 07/11/2024
B
An intelligent exercise in fantasy filmmaking. Go to Full Review John McDonald Australian Financial Review 04/19/2024
The realistic approach makes the implausible seem plausible, even as Farzaneh and her doctor think she must be going mad. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

Audience Reviews

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Leila K 11/02/2024 Great movie by Mani Haghighi. Very complex and psycholocally challenging movie. Great play by the legend of all time Taraneh Alidoosti. See more Ali 03/05/2024 The opening scene and the ending scene could be part of a reasonably good thriller mystery movie. Every thing in between was irrelevant, incoherent and more or less a comedy. See more Read all reviews
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Cast & Crew

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Mani Haghighi

Director

Taraneh Alidoosti

Farzaneh

Navid Mohammadzadeh

Jalal

Ali Bagheri

Actor

Soheyla Razavi

Actor

Gilda Vishki

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Movie Info

Synopsis Farzaneh spots her husband, Jalal, entering an unknown woman's house. When she confronts Jalal, he claims he wasn't in town. Jalal decides to check out the house for himself and meets a woman named Bita, who is the spitting image of Farzaneh.
Director
Mani Haghighi
Producer
Majid Motalebi
Screenwriter
Mani Haghighi, Amir Reza Koohestani
Production Co
Iranian Independents
Genre
Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
Persian
Runtime
1h 47m