Under the Shadow Page #2

Synopsis: As a mother and daughter struggle to cope with the terrors of the post-revolution, war-torn Tehran of the 1980s, a mysterious evil begins to haunt their home.
Director(s): Babak Anvari
Production: Wigwam Films
  Won 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 18 wins & 18 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Metacritic:
84
Rotten Tomatoes:
99%
PG-13
Year:
2016
84 min
$25,832
492 Views


No, I'm not mad about that...

Dorsa, how many times have I told you

to put your toys away after playing?

Is it my fault

you can't finish your studies?

Didn't you waste your time

on politics at university?

You sound exactly like them.

Am I wrong?

Have you forgotten that you kept calling

me spineless for sticking to my studies?

Like you never tried

to stop me studying.

When did I ever do that?

When the universities reopened

after the cultural revolution

who was it that told me studying could

wait, stay home and raise the child?

Do you have a problem

looking after your child?

Are you calling me a bad mother?

No. I'm saying don't blame your

shortcomings on me and our child.

Tell me, why do you want

to go back now, all of a sudden?

I didn't leave out of choice.

The cultural revolution happened.

That was four, five years ago.

The universities reopened after a year.

So?

You only want to go back now

because your mother died...

Becoming a doctor has

always been my dream!

No, shideh, it's your mother's dream.

Dead people can't dream.

I'll be scared without you here.

I'll be back before you know it!

Mum is going to take you to granny's.

Here's this month's rent

and what we owed from last month.

Give it to ebrahimi

when it's due to shut him up.

Mum...

Mum...

Mum...

Yes?

My bed is wet.

Get up.

You still have to wet yourself

at this age!

Aren't you going to school

next year?

Go to the bathroom,

take your clothes off.

Didn't I say go to the bathroom?

I'm scared to go alone...

Your toast.

Mummy?

Now that dad is not here...

Can I sleep next to you at night?

Aren't you a big girl?

Big girls don't wet the bed either.

Why do you have trouble sleeping?

Well?

Tell me. What are you scared of?

Hey?

Djinn...

Djinn aren't real...

They are. We just can't see them.

- Who told you that?

- Mehdi.

Who's mehdi?

Sogand and Ali's cousin.

He gave me a ball of magical cat

fur to protect myself from them.

But I lost it.

Drink properly.

Djinn are just a fairytale made

up to scare little children.

Mehdi said djinn are real.

They're evil and want to hurt us...

Mehdi is talking nonsense.

- Hello, Mrs. ebrahimi.

- Hello...

- I hope it's not a bad time.

- Not at all. Please come in.

No, thanks. I just

have a small request...

- Your relative...

- Mehdi?

He has been telling scary

stories to my daughter, dorsa.

I know he's just a child,

it's nothing spiteful

but dorsa is having real

trouble sleeping at night.

Please ask him not to tell

dorsa those kind of stories...

Your daughter has made a mistake.

Mehdi is mute.

He hasn't said a word

since he lost his parents.

They both got killed.

Ebrahimi took him

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Babak Anvari

Babak Anvari (Persian: بابک انوری‎) is a British-Iranian filmmaker. more…

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