The Stranger and the Fog
Bahram Beyzaie, 1974, 140 min

Introduced by Ehsan Khoshbakht

“Impossible to see for decades and presented in a new digital restoration from the original camera negative, Bahram Beyzaie’s dazzling The Stranger and the Fog, about a mysterious stranger who arrives in a coastal village on a drifting boat and falls for a local woman, is an endlessly symbolic tale in which uncontrollable forces of nature, superstition, ritual, and violence disorient the viewer in exhilarating ways. In the film’s meticulously structured circular narrative, characters, times, and spaces rhyme and mirror one another, turning filmmaking into an act of dreaming. Characters are the product of one another’s imagination, and eventually all become myth. The film cedes the centre of both desire and control to a woman of will, breaking through the strictures of victimized women presented in many Iranian films of the 1970s.” – EK

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Never on Sunday is a series of screenings of rare classics, archive masterpieces, obscure delights and forgotten gems carefully curated and introduced by Ehsan Khoshbakht and taking place the last Sunday of each month at Close-Up.