The Fish Fall in Love
- warm
- intimate
Warm, steady, gentle drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
How every film is hand-scored →After 22 years, Aziz decides to return to his hometown, to sell some family possessions, including the house where he was born. But for his astonishment, the place is now a small restaurant, run by four women, one of them a girl whom he once dated. Attieh, the girl, tries to convince him not to sell the place by, instead of telling him a story a day as Sheherazade, cooking him a delicious dish every day.
Our read · The Fish Fall in Love (2005) reads as a warm, steady, grounded drama · romance · iranian entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of The Fish Fall in Love
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