Writer-director Hassan Hedayat’s deeply affecting Sayeh-e-roshan revolves around Mohammad Alavi, a police detective who may be working his last case. A homicide has washed up on the beach: the corpse of an old drug addict. Why did the woman have Alavi’s home phone number written on the back of a photograph? Her name, Alavi learns, […]
Daily Archives: October 2, 2009
“One of the charms says ‘I love you’ on it. I hope you like it.” — Felix, gifting Ann with a bracelet, which, he assures her, “didn’t cost much.” Except for Thea, who marries for money, the musical Lemp sisters—Ann, Emma, Kay—are each infatuated with composer Felix Deitz. The surprise announcement of his and Ann’s […]
Dennis Grunes 