Film Review: A Light in the Fog

October 08, 2008 The debut feature by shorts filmmaker Panahbarkhoda Rezaee, "A Light in the Fog," is another short film, one that's been expanded -- forcibly in parts -- to barely feature length. There is always a place for Iranian films on the festival circuit, and this will be no exception, but "Fog's" esoteric nature, coma-inducing pacing and the dense (some would say static) images will keep it from even an art house release overseas. The widowed old man seems to be biding his time until death, and his daughter navigates the mist hoping for the return of her lover Habib, who went off to war and hasn't been heard from since.

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