Sun January 30, 2022 4:00 PM

CHESS OF THE WIND

$8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission)

Los Feliz 3 | New Restoration

This is a vaccinated-only screening

Tickets are no longer on sale for this event.

  • RELEASED IN: 1976
  • 93 MINUTES
  • DIRECTED BY: MOHAMMAD REZA ASLANI

ABOUT THE FILM

Screened publicly just once before it was banned and then lost for decades, this rediscovered jewel of Iranian cinema is one of the most singular and astonishing works of the country’s pre-revolution New Wave. A hypnotically stylized murder mystery awash in shivery period atmosphere, CHESS OF THE WIND unfolds in an ornate, candlelit mansion where a web of greed, violence and betrayal ensnares the heirs to a family fortune as they vie for control of their recently deceased matriarch’s estate. Melding the influences of European modernism, gothic horror, and classical Persian art, director Mohammad Reza Aslani crafts an exquisitely controlled mood piece that erupts in a stunningly subversive final act in which class conventions, gender roles and even time itself are upended with shocking ferocity.

Restored by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and Cineteca di Bologna at L’Image Retrouvée laboratory (Paris) in collaboration with Mohammad Reza Aslani and Gita Aslani Shahrestani. Restoration funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

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