Joan Juliet Buck reviews two stunning movies about life under authoritarian rule
Walter Salles' 'I'm Still Here', about an engineer disappeared from his home by an oppressive regime in 1971, won the Oscar for best not-American film. Mohammad Rasoulof's 'The Seed of the Sacred Fig', is about a judge in Iran's Revolutionary Court during the 2022 protests that followed the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, arrested for not wearing her hijab correctly. Brazil: how to survive as a human being after your husband is kidnapped by the regime. Iran: can you survive as a a human being when you are an enforcer of the regime?
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