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Tara Aghdashloo

Tara Aghdashloo

Iranian writer and director

Jul 9, 2026

26:33
Yeah.
26:34
I mean, you know, I think we all end up falling in love with them, but it's pretty messed up what he does.
26:40
Like, it is kind of diabolical that he goes on multiple trips to this household.
26:47
And when you realize that in his head he was acting, it really kind of, it just was such a... beautiful revelation and this big question, because there's a lot of questions, as you said, about what's real, what's not.
27:03
But one of the central questions for me was this idea of power and this idea of who is the filmmaker, who is the actor, because everyone is, again, acting in this film, even Kiarostami himself.
27:19
He is playing the role of Kiarostami because a lot of the directions that he gives is actually clearly put in in post, like it's actually voiceover.
27:30
He reenacts things.

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74:33
But he says that the, the one key through line that he has found in understanding what is considered a hybrid film and what is just a documentary with fiction elements or fiction with documentary elements is when the filmmaker is deliberately sliding across the spectrum of reality and fiction, which I thought was a very fascinating way of defining a loose genre.

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