Cinema Rex - Iranian Cinema Podcast
Sep 3, 2026 · 55 min · 13 segments
After a humiliated Tehran pizza delivery man is repeatedly confronted by the city's brutal class divide, a string of every day indignities pushes him towards a desperate jewelry store robbery…
Kaveh MohebbiHost
Faran MoradiGuest
[laughs] Um, Jafar Panahi, I think at this point he's either the m- the, the most films- f- the filmmaker who we've covered on this podcast or it's second to Kiarostami.
This is probably one of his more popular early film- actually, it's very hard to say, but this is a film that's been popular in my brain for a long time.
Well, it's really funny because my experience was I remember my parents bought a DVD of it very early on-
And then not to spoil, like, my thoughts on this, but I had a very different interpretation this time.
It's not to say that I disliked it, but this is, like, you know, almost 20 years... no, over 20 years ago now.
... that I just remember being like, "Wow, I didn't know Iranian movies could feel like this."
[laughs] Um, Jafar Panahi, I think at this point he's either the m- the, the most films- f- the filmmaker who we've covered on this podcast or it's second to Kiarostami.
This is probably one of his more popular early film- actually, it's very hard to say, but this is a film that's been popular in my brain for a long time.
Well, it's really funny because my experience was I remember my parents bought a DVD of it very early on-
And then not to spoil, like, my thoughts on this, but I had a very different interpretation this time.
It's not to say that I disliked it, but this is, like, you know, almost 20 years... no, over 20 years ago now.
... that I just remember being like, "Wow, I didn't know Iranian movies could feel like this."
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