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Under the Skin of the Night

1974 · 95 min

A quiet, bittersweet drift through busy night streets, where two strangers share a fleeting, wordless tenderness amid loneliness.

Directed by: Fereydoun Gole
Genres: Drama
Starring: Morteza Aghili, Susan Gilber, Mehri Vadadian

Overview: In one of his daily wanderings, Ghasem Siah, a young jobless guy who leads a street life, runs into a young American tourist girl who is spending her last day in Tehran. Without understanding each other's words, they strike up a friendship and the girl accepts to sleep with him. But Ghasem doesn't have a place of his own and the girl is about to depart by the next morning. Together they set off on the glistening yet hostile streets of modernizing Tehran of the 70s, in a futile search of a corner of intimacy, while time is ticking away....

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Directed by: Fereydoun Gole
Genres: Drama
Starring: Morteza Aghili, Susan Gilber, Mehri Vadadian

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: isolation
loneliness
class
love
survival
Places: big city
road trip
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	2
Horror	1
Humour	3
Realism	8
Romance	4
Tension	5
Darkness	6
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	6

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