Iranian filmmaker living in exile in Europe; won the Golden Bear for There Is No Evil (2020) and made A Man of Integrity (2017) and The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024).
loved
Blow-Up makes me think about the meaning of a person’s relationship to reality and the extent to which someone can deny reality in order to avoid having to criticize themselves. Antonioni achieves this in a remarkable way.
Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Mohammad Rasoulof, the entry for Blow-Up.
Chilean filmmaker whose films on Chile under Pinochet include Tony Manero (2008), No (2012) and El Conde (2023); he also directed Jackie (2016), Spencer (2021) and Maria (2024).
loved
I’m a photographer, so my connection with Blow-Up is through photography. The film is based on a story by an Argentine writer I love, Julio Cortázar, and it’s just so elegantly and strangely made.
Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Pablo Larraín, the entry for Blow-Up.
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