It Was Just an Accident - Reviews

It’s another very impressive serio-comic film from one of the most distinctive and courageous figures in world cinema.

...a raw and blistering moral thriller about a hard-working Azeri man whose most tormented memories come rushing to the surface.

...a film about anger, felt as deeply by the characters whose lives unspool in front of the camera as by the filmmaker who sits behind it.

Panahi’s film is a reflection of his currently fractious relationship with his homeland.

...there are no wasted shots and no squandered moments in this picture because it understands that cinema is life...

...the fearless filmmaker crafts his most radical condemnation of the forces that have long attempted to silence him.

...slices into memory and the desire for revenge with a double-edged knife.

The story unravels at a steady clip, inviting more voices and frenetic emotions with every furtive location change, the possibility of righteous violence looking more likely and less inevitable at any given moment.

Funny and thrilling in the moment, utterly haunting in retsospect.

The film has clout, vitriol and an impressive payload of blackly comic despair.

Trots yrkesförbud och husarrest fortsätter Jafar Panahi att utmana den iranska regimen.

...en vild och oförutsägbar filmresa som på ett elegant sätt fångar den absurda verkligheten i dagens Iran.

...ett regimkritiskt mästerverk med humor och djup.

Den mycket engagerande ”Det var bara en olycka” vann Guldpalmen i Cannes.