Alan Mattli’s review published on Letterboxd:
ZFF 2021 #19
Major pacing issues aside, I appreciate this for its gently dark sense of humour, its at times stunning compositions, and its roundabout dialogue scenes that often end up in emotionally resonant places seemingly by accident. I can imagine that the ambiguous tonality Panahi is going for is a faithful representation of spending your life knowing that the best thing you could ever do for a person you love might be to let them leave the country and potentially never see them again. I wonder what prompted him to make a movie about that feeling...