Gavkhooni

Gavkhooni,The River’s End, A movie of Behrooz Afkhami,in The 57th Cannes Film Festival.on May 20
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Gavkhooni' is the adptation of a novel of Modarres Sadeghi , considered like unadaptable to the cinema. The first two thirds of film are in voice-off with images out of subjective camera. The voice is that of a son who speaks about his father deceased. It evokes memories of walks and bathes along the river which crosses Isfahan, old historical capital of Iran. After the death of his father, it married with a cousin. Dissatisfied by this marriage, it leaves the town of its childhood and the shop of tailor whom his father held to work in a bookshop of Teheran.

The film is told whereas the son written a letter one harms in his apartment of Teheran. The dream mêleégalement with the account, the whole with an almost uninterrupted monologue. Several deaths are evoked for the father, one does not know which is real. The mystery also reigns around the bathes prohibited in the river where the two men cross a professor. Prohibited place thus, because of homosexual meetings, or place where the father found death, one does not know... ' Gavkhooni' treats difficult relations between a son and his father, which the psychologists invite " to kill the father ". Deceased, it misses it whereas alive it choked it. This dead end even evokes also the relationship between the generations in Iran in this moment...