A Dragon Arrives!
- sombre
- measured
- surreal
- twisty
Sombre, measured, measured drama / fantasy, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →On Jan. 22, 1965, the day before the Iranian prime minister is assassinated, a car drives up to a shipwreck. Inside the wreck, a banished political prisoner has hung himself and the walls are covered in diary entries, literary quotes, and strange symbols. Fifty years later, the evidence, including intelligence tape recordings, is found in a box. The contents attest to the fact that the inspector and his colleagues were arrested, but why?
Our read · A Dragon Arrives! (2016) reads as a sombre, measured, surreal drama · fantasy · iranian entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of A Dragon Arrives!
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a cryptic Iranian experimental film mixing mystery, politics and the uncanny.”
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The reading.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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