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Audio Format: DD 2.0 Video Format: Widescreen 1.85:1 Languages: Persian Subtitles: English Region Code: 1 Year Made: 2005 Running Time: 90
In this startlingly inventive and poetic film, director Mohammad Rasoulof uses an enormous, decaying oil tanker and the miniature society that lives and works on it as an examination of contemporary Iran. Captain Nemat, the dominating patriarch of the ship, serves as the self-sustaining community??s arbitrator, accountant, entrepreneur, matchmaker and nearly everything in between.
By turns paternalistic and despotic, the captain tirelessly patrols the ship in his turban and flowing robes, doing his best to ensure that the day-to-day rhythms of the community continue smoothly while ignoring the dire warnings from inside and out that the ship seems to be slowly sinking and is about to be repossessed by its owners. All the tensions of the ship culminate in an extraordinarily epic, ominous scene where a boy is punished for defying a marriage arranged by the Captain.
Dazzlingly shot, Reza Jalali??s lyrical, sun-drenched photography lovingly captures the eccentric and colorful quotidian details of the boat??s inhabitants. Iron Island shows in poignant and whimsical fashion how life under totalitarianism goes on despite the problems that plague it.
Special Features:
- Trailers
- Photo gallery
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