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Time of Love
Dir.: Mohsen Makhmalbaf | 75 minutes

Time of Love

Iran 1990 | 75 minutes | Turkish | Hebrew subtitles

A dark-haired man discovers that his wife is having an affair with a blond man. He kills the lover, and is sentenced to death. His wife commits suicide. B. Now the blond is the husband and the dark man is the lover. The same result. C. As in A above, up to the conflict between the two men... Mohsen Makhmalbaf presents a romantic trilogy whose main theme created censorship problems in the Islamic Republic of Iran: The film sat on the shelf for five years before being released for Western eyes at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.