The Report
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Country: Iran
Year: 1977
Runtime: 112 minutes
Color / Mono
The rare early Kiarostami film made outside of Kanoon, and one of the most downbeat of his features, this adult drama concerns a civil servant plagued by two predicaments: he's accused of taking bribes, and his marriage is collapsing (Kiarostami has admitted that the latter element is autobiographical). Full of pre-revolutionary disquiet, the film features future star Shohreh Aghdashloo as the wife.