A bathhouse, a desert, and bodies everywhere — Persian New Wave tragedy hits different.
A man who has fallen in love with a young woman discovers that she is the wife of his friend. When he realizes the woman's affection for a young libertine with whom she is secretly meeting in an abandoned house, he commits suicide. When the local women, out of jealousy, expose her, she also ends her life. Her husband buries her body in the abandoned bathhouse. The young libertine, driven to madness, wanders into the desert.
Cinematography
Desert landscapes that swallow characters whole.
Direction
Ovanessian's controlled, ritualistic pacing.
Acting
Mahtaj Nojoomi's silent, devastating presence.
Director
Arby Ovanessian
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Iran's pre-revolutionary New Wave, when filmmakers explored rural tragedy through modernist lenses.
Ovanessian adapted this from a short story by Ali-Akbar Safavi-Farhani, keeping the cryptic title that refers to both season and a water source.
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