In this sense, for his followers, Amir becomes something far more indispensable than a simple drug dealer. Filmed without a permit, using hidden cameras and constantly trying to bypass restrictions which proved valuable opportunities to experiment with new filmmaking approaches, Critical Zone looks to reveal, directly and instinctively, what simmers beneath the surface of an oppressed society which is rebelling as best it can, in the darkness of night, against rules which are now devoid of meaning. The fact that people will see it is an even bigger victory for us”, explains the director whose films have been banned in his country by the regime.
“Shooting this film was an act of rebellion. Falling somewhere between The Big Lebowski and A Clockwork Orange, Critical Zone - which is in the running for the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival - depicts the torments of those who no longer believe - but are unable to admit it out loud - in what’s around them, whether politics, religion or the moral leadership which seeks to suffocate people’s innermost instincts and desires.Īs underlined by the director himself, the film is populated by real people (the various passengers/clients whom Amir welcomes into his car or whom he meets in the black of night): regular users, a flight attendant-come-smuggler returning from a trip abroad, a conservative-minded mother who’s trying to save her cut-adrift, drug-addicted son, a group of devoted transexual sex workers whom the director films in a documentarian and experimental fashion, at times verging on psychedelic.
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