{"id":20286,"date":"2021-04-19T22:03:34","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T17:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=20286"},"modified":"2021-04-19T22:03:34","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T17:33:34","slug":"australian-website-praises-%e2%80%98another-gem-from-iranian-cinema%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/20286\/australian-website-praises-%e2%80%98another-gem-from-iranian-cinema%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian website praises \u2018another gem from Iranian cinema\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"summary\">TEHRAN &#8211; MercatorNet, an Australian website promoting the family and human dignity, has praised Iranian director Mohammadreza Kheradmandan\u2019s two-minute movie \u201cThursday Appointment\u201d, calling it \u2018another gem from Iranian cinema\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The 2019 film is about an elderly couple making their way through traffic and reciting to each other a poem by the great Persian poet Hafez. Meanwhile, the old man notices a young girl who is sad in the back seat of her parent\u2019s car, they are too busy arguing. He intervenes and gives his wife\u2019s flowers to the young couple to stop them from arguing. We only realize how important those flowers were to the old man when he drives off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt never ceases to amaze me that despite all the wealth, experience, and tradition of American cinema, it seldom matches the depth and humanity of the best Iranian films. Asghar Farhadi\u2019s family drama A Separation, for instance, won an Oscar in 2012. I can\u2019t think of many films which combine so successfully deep moral issues, intricate plotting, and painfully realistic human drama,\u201d reads part of the article titled \u201cIs this the best short film about marriage you\u2019ll ever see?\u201d, written by Australian editor Michael Cook, which was published on April 14.<\/p>\n<p>Calling it \u2018another gem from Iranian cinema\u2019, Cook invites the readers to watch \u201cThursday Appointment\u201d, a short film about poetry, traffic, child poverty, the wisdom of old age, good marriages, bad marriages, empathy, and kindness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA good short film is a kind of cinematic haiku which leaves you breathless with its insight. This is a very good short film,\u201d it continues.<\/p>\n<p>Born in 1984, Kheradmandan directed his first feature film \u201c21 Days Later\u201d in 2017, which won the audience award at the 35th Fajr International Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>He has made several short films and animated movies as well as TV series and has been nominated and awarded in various national and international events.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo: A scene from Iranian director Mohammadreza Kheradmandan\u2019s short film \u201cThursday Appointment\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ABU\/MG<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN &#8211; MercatorNet, an Australian website promoting the family and human dignity, has praised Iranian director Mohammadreza Kheradmandan\u2019s two-minute movie \u201cThursday Appointment\u201d, calling it \u2018another gem from Iranian cinema\u2019. The 2019 film is about an elderly couple making their way through traffic and reciting to each other a poem by the great Persian poet Hafez. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}