Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Mohsen Makhmalbaf's The Nights of Zayandeh-Rood (1990) is showing July 5 - August 4 in most countries around the world, and July 12 - August 11, 2018 in the United States, as part of the series Mubi x Nang Present: In & Out.The story behind Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s The Nights of Zayandeh-Rood deserves a film of its own. The Iranian director’s portrait of a daughter and father before, during, and after the 1979 Revolution was butchered by the country’s censorship committee shortly after production ended in 1990. Enraged by the alleged counter-revolutionary message, authorities first chopped 25 of the original 100 minutes, slashing another 12 after The Nights premiered at the Fajr Film Festival to crowds so large people had to queue overnight to get a seat. Makhmalbaf was shunned as a traitor, threatened with death, arrested by the secret police and interrogated for hours. A mutilated...
- 7/19/2018
- MUBI
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