No Date, No Signature / Bedoone Tarikh, Bedoone Emza (2017) DVD5, download for free

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No Date, No Signature / Bedoone Tarikh, Bedoone Emza (2017) DVD5

by movieworld on October 30th, 2021 at 14:56

Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A question of guilt hangs over the Iranian film "No Date, No Signature". It’s a question that eventually ruins lives, a marriage and career, yet there’s no easy answer to be had in a world of mistrust, privilege and vengeance. Lensed with great sensitivity and style and superbly acted, it has one drawback for Western audiences in its perplexing plot points based on the local culture and customs.

It begins with a car crash – one of those things that seems to come out of nowhere in the dark. Colliding with a motorbike, Dr Nariman (Amir Aghaee), a forensic pathologist, hastens to check that its child passenger is okay. The boy seems woozy, not quite himself. Concerned about a head injury, Dr Nariman urges the boy’s father, Moosa (Navid Mohammedzadeh) to take him to hospital, offering him money as compensation for the accident that should cover any fees. Moosa is reluctant, something Dr Nariman cannot understand, but there’s not much he can do about it, so he leaves.

The following day the boy arrives at the hospital where Dr Nariman works, dead. A colleague diagnoses food poisoning, with tests to follow. But Dr Nariman cannot rid himself of the thought that the accident is to blame. He becomes obsessed with finding out the truth, whilst the boy’s heartbroken parents struggle with their own feelings of guilt and Moosa grows furious at the factory worker who illegally sold him chicken not fit for human consumption.