Not since Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark has the single take been attempted at such a grandiose level. Shahram Mokri's first feature length film is an exceptionally audacious, experimental and risky project, which not only defies the meaning of the word 'genre', but also transcends any characteristics standard to the genre film. Fish & Cat is at once a suspense, a thriller, a horror, a romance, a coming-of-age, and a cinematic exercise in stretching the boundaries of the medium.
The film starts with the suspicious Babak, and slowly expands its cast as the camera moves from forest to forest and coast to coast. Some of our questions are answered - others are not. But even this minor attempt at filmic omniscience is…