In the Holy city of Mashhad there’s a strange juxtaposition of holiness constrasting unholiness. Women who find themselves in dark underbelly of Mashhad confronting poverty by any means. Punished for such lewdness but the men who are quite the reason for the situation are walking free.
Holy Spider is a must see provocation and challenge of what it means to be Holy
One thing you might not have known regarding the film Holy Spider is the uproar it caused at Cannes with the walkout from audience at the graphic violence it portrayed.
Does Ali Abbasi get an unfair advantage that such pearl clutching gasp heard all around Cannes gave HS international recognition. Not for the sake of story telling, but the violence and exploitive scenes of Iranian sex workers. Does it interest you to watch the brutality? Or is it the political…
