Однажды, кино / Нассреддин-шах, киноактёр, 1992. Режиссер - Мохсен Махмальбаф

Nassereddin Shah, Actor-e Cinema / Once Upon a Time, Cinema / Однажды, кино / Нассреддин-шах, киноактёр Режиссер - Мохсен Махмальбаф Год: 1992 Страна: Иран Язык: Фарси, английские субтитры О фильме: Король, который выступает против кинематографа и сам проверяет все фильмы, влюбляется в киноактрису из старой ленты. Для того, чтоб завоевать благосклонность любимой, он оставляет трон и посвящает себя кино. This meditation on cinema and censorship is astounding. Contemporary black and white footage is interspersed with clips from older films, though sometimes the transition is so seamless one can’t tell when one ends and the other begins. Crude special effects are used to create a surreal atmosphere that owes a tremendous debt to Luis Bunuel, particularly Exterminating Angel and Un Chien Andalou. There’s also a Kubrick tribute towards the end of the film. No amount of exposition will prepare you for this film, which truly has to be seen to be believed. A wonderful, fairy tale-like comedy set during the Qajar dynasty, which is a condensed history of Iranian cinema and a love letter to the cinema in general, by the talented and controversial Mohsen Makhmalbaf (The Peddler, Gabbeh). The film tells the story of a Charlie Chaplin-like cinematographer who introduces the magic of movies to the Persian court. The Shah has 84 wives and 200 children, but after a screening he falls desperately in love with the film’s heroine.