According to Cinema Etemad, Hassan Lotfi wrote in Etemad newspaper:
Abolfazl Jalili is a unique filmmaker. (at least for me and his fans) his view of the cinema has little to do with a large audience, box office, see me at any price, exaggeration, etc. (Instead of… leave all the features of popular movies such as Ganj Qaroon, Expulsions, Fossil, Texas 1, 2, 3 and other blockbuster movies).
Although from his first feature film (Milad) he went to teenagers and children, he does not give much room to imagination to distance the world of his films from current reality. (It should not be said that this sentence does not mean to trivialize imagination in cinema, and it is not even supposed to say that every film that uses the element of imagination is far from showing reality!)
As it is clear from his movies and writings, cinema is very important to him, but reality, life and people are more important to him. When he made the film Gal in 1365, he showed his critical view of dealing with delinquent teenagers in Dar al-Tadib, not to catch the audience’s tears and create emotional moments. His intention was to remove pus glands from the social face, which made some problems of life more difficult for his people (children, teenagers, young and old). Although he went to the prison and the prisoners in Milad and Gall, he showed that these problems exist outside the prisons with the dirt dance.
Before many filmmakers, with Det ie Dokhtar, he joined directors such as Baizai and Makhlambaf, whose views on girls and women were beyond the understanding of cinematographers and cinema audiences. Of course, there is a huge difference between the other two people and Jalili.
I have no doubt. For Abolfazl Jalili, the story of a movie can be changed by the illness of the actor and the fate of the sick actor goes beyond the end of the movie (the movie is a real story), even beyond that, as I heard, the future of the actors in his movies, who are often called non-actors, is very important to him.
Abolfazl Jalili is a good filmmaker, he is a noble person, he is a good Jalili, and how empty his films are for his audience and the reality in the time of Texas and Hotel and… I wrote this to say Mr. Jalili, there are viewers who are waiting to see a movie by Abolfazl Jalili. I told you too. I hope it will happen soon as you answered. The films of independent filmmakers such as you, Mohammad Ali Sajjadi, etc. can strengthen the hope for the survival of all cinema.