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So Close, So Far (Kheili Dour, Kheili Nazdik)

So Close, So Far (Kheili Dour, Kheili Nazdik)

James Bridges Theater
Melnitz Hall
University of California
Los Angeles, CA 90095

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
 
Advance tickets are available online for $8.  Tickets are also available at the theater one hour before showtime:  $7 general admission; $5 students, seniors and UCLA Alumni Association members with ID.

There is free parking on Loring Avenue after 6 pm on weekdays and all day on weekends.  Parking is also available in Lot 3 for $8. 

The Archive has made the following arrangement for its patrons:   Archive patrons can purchase a parking permit for $5 to be used for future visits to the James Bridges Theater for a screening.  This represents a $3 savings over the usual price of $8.


310-206-8013

www.cinema.ucla.edu




Sponsor(s): Film and Television Archive, Bijan and Soraya Amin Foundation

11 Feb 06
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM

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