Trust cinema Amir Farzullahi wrote in Etemad newspaper: Everything starts with the absence of a person, the person who is the breadwinner of the family, has gone to create favorable conditions and make his family accept those conditions, but… don’t say that it didn’t happen and lives in a corner of this city. does without his wife knowing…
A socially concerned film that was made with a low budget, but due to the fact that social cinema no longer exists in Iran, with its flaws, it is considered the jewel of the night, a beacon of the current state of Iranian cinema.
A type or genre of cinema that faded from the beginning of Ahmadinejad’s government in Iran and was produced in an underground and unofficial form and was not released since 1388 due to the unusual conditions that were imposed on the society.
A genre that is the most popular type of cinema in Iran, and people and critics, if a good movie is made in this genre, will certainly welcome it, and it has contributed to the reputation and credibility of Iranian cinema in the world. A movie that is considered a threat by the government and hard institutions of power, but social wisdom says that in order to properly diagnose a society, one must know the pains of a society and show them, and the facts of a society should not be considered blackmail.
An obscure title that has been introduced to social cinema by a powerful minority in society to destroy, deny and escape, and thus social cinema has gone down and been destroyed to the point where one has to pick up a magnifying glass and look for a social film with a lantern or be prepared. Conditions for making a social film that reflects the state of the society and its people in the maximum form.
In such a situation, the movie “Absence” even though its story starts late and because it was made without permission and secretly, it is considered a film worthy of reflection in a situation where Iranian cinema is full of vulgarity and weed and gratuitousness. It runs rampant and the vulgarity of the director’s content rises above its head. The screening of “Absence” is a remarkable event. All its flaws are a work that makes the audience think, and it did not go to the lower classes of society in a luxurious and stereotypical way, and did not see them in black and white, and at least it managed to treat and narrate the main characters of its story correctly.
Although the rhythm of the film is slow and the unveiling of the secrets of the film is very drop-by-drop, it keeps the audience thirsty for social cinema and does not consider the understanding of the audience to be anything at a time when 99% of Iranian film productions are full of vulgar food, customization and budgets that suck people’s pockets and budgets. The country is the production and screening of “Absence” is considered an event, an event that the film audience and people should welcome and this originates from there. It can be seen that this filmmaker has taken a mirror to the society and has shown and targeted a drop of the sea of society’s problems in this film.
From what the Iranian cinema remembers of Kaveh Sajjadi Hosseini’s other films, it is assumed that “Absence” is considered to be the best film of this cinema director. He wanted to bring the main characters of his film closer to the audience and be believable for the general and special audience.
In the meantime, Sahar Daulatshahi’s remarkable performance in this film cannot be ignored, and since the conditions of the screening in the current state of Iranian cinema are very unscrupulous, the author of this review avoids addressing the flaws of this film and tells the movie lovers and people Normal people who have the energy, opportunity and mood to go to the cinema, recommend that they think about the making and screening of such films after watching this film and go to the social cinema. to take the historical and cultural and by doing this deal with the banality that dominates the Iranian cinema. “Absence” is a movie that is worth watching, don’t forget to watch it.