Without her husband and without her lawyer’s licence, which has been withdrawn, Noora is left pregnant and alone in her apartment. Her attempt to leave Iran turns into a fight with male chauvinism. A personal, nerve-wracking and infuriating film by Rasoulof, who was himself convicted for his films in Iran.
Together with Jafar Panahi, director Mohammad Rasoulof was sentenced on 20 December 2010 to six years in jail for alleging having endangered the security of the state of Iran. In October 2011, Rasoulof’s sentence was reduced to one year, while Panahi’s was kept at six.
Goodbye is a sober, frightening portrait of a society that is stooping under the continual control and threats of its religious regime. Noora, a young, pregnant lawyer in Tehran whose husband has been sent to work in the desert because of his critical journalistic activities, continually faces opposition from the regime and decides to leave the country. That turns out to be very difficult.
Because Rasoulof was already banned from making films, Goodbye was shot partly in secret in the winter of 2010/2011. The result is a disquieting film that makes impotence and the desire for freedom painfully tangible in all its simplicity. At Cannes it won the Un Certain Regard award for best director.
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Sterke film, zeker gezien de omstandigheden waaronder Rasoulof deze film heeft moeten maken. 'Als je je een vreemdeling in je eigen land voelt, wordt het tijd om weg te gaan'. De onveiligheid en beklemming van de omstandigheden van de protagoniste worden zeer voelbaar gemaakt, in een sobere film die bijna helemaal interieur is gedraaid. Het eind is ijzersterk, maar (en) niet hoopvol. Bewonderenswaardig hoe Rasoulof stand houdt. Heb de film woensdagavond gezien en had Rasoulof een warmer onthaal van het publiek toegewenst. Pijnlijk hoe de zaal zo goed als leegstroomde voor de Q&A's. Zo'n filmmaker en film verdient een lange ovatie.
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