Careless Crime
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The UCLA Film & Television Archive presents classic film and contemporary cinema in the Hammer's Billy Wilder Theater.
Register at cinema.ucla.edu to attend this in-theater screening.
Iranian writer-director Shahram Mokri (Fish & Cat, Invasion) constructs an intricate cinematic puzzle that evokes the Cinema Rex tragedy, a 1978 act of arson that killed an estimated 420 moviegoers and sparked the Iranian revolution. Through long takes and a roving camera, Mokri weaves multiple storylines—an arsonist plot, a student film group screening, a film-within-a-film about a police investigation—into an enthralling, devastating portrait of a contemporary Iran seemingly trapped by its revolutionary history in an infinite loop of tragedy. (2020, dir. Sharham Mokri, DCP from the UCLA Film & Television Archive, color, 134 min.)
In person: Writer-director Shahram Mokri