Sarah-Tai: I liked it a lot. I love the way Alireza Khatami deliberately breaks the film apart in the mid-point. It really collapses in on itself, in a good way. And it pulls you into this very surreal, internal, psychic disorientation that forces you to find your own footing again. It’s the kind of work that makes you, as a viewer, an active participant instead of just a passive observer, and I love that. The way that it unfolds is really symptomatic of the inherited patriarchal violence we see on screen of the male characters. It becomes clear that the story of revenge is not really about revenge, it’s about why revenge is a symptom of that family. And I think it’s very haunting.

It’s a movie that I really want to watch again. I feel like once wasn’t enough for me to fully immerse myself in that self-meaning making it asks of its audiences…. It has this one incredibly, incredibly stunning shot that I can’t stop thinking about. I rewound the film, like, 10 times to see it play out over and over again. And I love being woken up like that. I love movies.