The Sundance Movie Pageant begins Thursday, January 23, and IndieWire can share an unique trailer for an unsettling new movie to not be missed out of the World Cinema Dramatic competitors. Iranian director Alireza Khatami (“Terrestrial Verses,” the one Iranian movie to premiere at Cannes 2023) debuts the mind- and narrative-bending, Turkey-set thriller “The Issues You Kill,” a few literature professor conceiving of a homicide that’s near house. Or is it a disappearance?
As I wrote in our Sundance curtain raiser, with shades of Abbas Kiarostami in its self-awareness and “Misplaced Freeway” in flipping the narrative (and a key solid member) midway by means of, “The Issues You Kill” is shot with cool precision as Ali (Ekin Koç) befriends an enigmatic gardener who opens the door to jumpstarting his flatlined life. It’s arduous to say an excessive amount of about this mesmerizing movie with out spoiling it, however Khatami, who lives in Canada, reveals calm management over a narrative that’s inexorably hurtling towards doom. Till the story turns inside out but once more.
Right here’s the Sundance Movie Pageant official programming description: “Haunted by the suspicious loss of life of his ailing mom, a college professor coerces his enigmatic gardener to execute a cold-blooded act of vengeance. Celebrated Iranian American director Alireza Khatami (‘Terrestrial Verses,’ 2023 Cannes Movie Pageant) makes his Sundance competitors debut together with his placing third characteristic, a quietly insidious psychological thriller that hits near house. With ingenuity and daring self-awareness, Khatami orchestrates a gradual descent into the oppressive depths of generational patriarchy, peeling again long-held secrets and techniques and collectively condoned conduct to confront the decaying internalized ugliness beneath. Set towards sweeping landscapes, the movie boasts a famend Turkish solid whose nuanced performances punctuate this searing examination of cycles of violence, making certain that voice is given to a technology desperately looking for to resign the darkish legacy they’ve inherited. Formidable and unsettling, ‘The Issues You Kill’ shatters expectations to ship a well timed and authentic imaginative and prescient of the price of private and collective liberation.”
Watch the trailer for “The Issues You Kill,” an IndieWire unique, beneath.
“The Issues You Kill” premieres within the World Cinema Dramatic competitors on the Sundance Movie Pageant on January 24. It’s going to even be obtainable on-line beginning January 30 for the general public. Finest Pal Perpetually is dealing with gross sales on the pageant.