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‘It Was Just An Accident’ Review: Iranian Director Jafar Panahi’s First Film Since His Prison Time Is All About Revenge But Finds The Humor And Humanity Too – Cannes Film Festival
A review of Jafar Panahi's first film since his last prison release in Iran uses his own experience with working class inmates to shed light on Iran
The most recent saw him get out in 2022 and he is now free to travel again, but the experience has affected him to the point his new film, It Was Just An Accident, deals in a fictional way with past wrongfully incarcerated working class people seeking revenge against the guard who tortured and berated them. He then follows the father who he will reveal to be the man named Eghbal (Ebrahim Azizi) he thinks tortured him when he was tossed into prison for simply asking to be paid his wages, He sideswipes him, shackles and blindfolds him, carting him away to the desert where he has prepared a grave in order to bury him alive. Others are then brought into the action as we learn each was in the same prison including a photographer named Shiva (Maryam Adshari) who is in the middle of a wedding photo shoot with a bride (Hadis Pakbaten) and groom (Majid Panahi), interrupted by the anxious Vahid who now has the man knocked out and tied up in a box in his truck.
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