
Episode 158: Crimson Gold (2003)
I revisit Jafar Panahi’s Crimson Gold, a slow-burning and deeply unsettling Iranian drama about poverty, humiliation and a man pushed to the edge. Hossain Emadeddin gives one of the strangest and most quietly compelling performances I’ve seen.
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