Like a Good Kid (Mesle Bache Adam)
2018 · 20m · Iran
Directed by Arian Vazirdaftari
Genres: drama
Tones: contemplative, dark, tense
Sara, a 24-year-old woman, agrees to babysit Matin, a 6-year-old boy, for the day while his mother is at work. Matin's account of a fight with his mother the previous night sets off a chain of events that changes both of them irreversibly.
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The scouts
A kid tells an innocent story and it quietly detonates the adult world around him — Iranian social pressure weaponized through a babysitting afternoon.
Cinéfondation selection that lets a six-year-old's bedtime story detonate an adult moral collapse — the Iranian tradition of catastrophic small choices (Farhadi, Panahi) made claustrophobically intimate.
Arian Vazirdaftari letting a six-year-old's bedtime story about a domestic fight become the slow-burning fuse for an adult moral collapse. Cinéfondation Cannes 2018; the Iranian-cinema discipline of moral consequence is fully present.
Festivals
- Cannes Film Festival – Cinéfondation 2018