Masoud Rayegani (from last year's Silence of the Sea) plays a wealthy Tehran doctor who lives a life of luxury, surrounded by the latest in high-tech personal communication devices.  This self-satisfied existence is rocked when he learns that his teenaged son has a brain tumor.  So Close, So Far follows the doctor's journey as he takes to the road to catch up with his son who's gone off on a New Year's holiday.  This moving film is part male melodrama, part road movie, developing into a fable of renewal and transformation.  Like A Piece of Bread (with which it shares a screenwriter), So Close, So Far can be read as religious parable or existential allegory.  The film is Iran's submission for the 2005 Foreign-Language Film Oscar.

Producer: Reza Mirkarimi
Screenwriters: Reza Mirkarimi, Mohammad-Reza Gohari
Cinematographer: Hamid Khozolee Abyane
Editor: Bahram Denghani
With: Masoud Rayegani, Afshin Hashemi
2005, 35mm, 121 minutes
 
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