One Night

Every film festival has at least one day where the schedule is so tight that I either miss the beginning or the end of a film. Today is the day. I decided not to watch the last five minutes of Niki Karimi’s “One Night (Yek Shab)” to go see “Bab’Aziz.” One Night is another Iranian night driving film. Its structure is far less complex than “Portrait of a Lady Far Away.” It is basically three confessionals from three men who picked up our heroine. The curious thing about this film is the heroine. We hardly know her or even have a good directly look at her. We learnt the most intimate secret of three men but what is the point? Our key to the whole thing, the heroine, is a blank piece of paper. Something revolutionarily revealing may happen after I left the theatre. Not knowing then is the price I have to pay. The chance of see this film again is slim to none, I will carry this mystery for a long time.