Our take
A child’s death is a hard thing to face. The idea of a life cut so short is already painful enough, but when there’s a chance that it’s caused by something that you did, the guilt can be so overwhelming. This is what No Date, No Signature is all about. As coroner Dr. Kaveh Nariman recognizes a corpse as the boy he thought left unscathed after a small vehicular accident, he’s convinced that it’s totally his fault. Filmmaker Vahid Jalilvand effectively captures that anguish in undersaturated greys, capturing a conscientiousness that pushes Nariman to try to do good, but at the same time, ruin his own efforts doing so.
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The story
Kaveh Nariman is a Doctor in the medical examiner's office. One day at his work he meets a corpse which is very familiar to him.
Elsewhere
"Dafoe and Pattinson have the stage pretty much to themselves, and the result is a beguiling crunch of styles."
— Anthony Lane
"a rich and strange sea yarn in monochrome that overflows with Beckettian absurdity, as these men, perhaps both liars (literal gaslighters), look, while waiting for ‘relief’, into the abyss of both their elemental isolation & their infernal companionship. "
— Anton Bitel
Kaveh Nariman is a Doctor in the medical examiner's office. One day at his work he meets a corpse which is very familiar to him.
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Who picked it
Isabella Endrinal is a curator at A Good Movie to Watch. She's now free from the corporate night shift. Previous articles have been published in outlets such as NANG Magazine. She's currently catching up on some classic films… if she isn't coping with the fact that the Haikyu anime will end soon.
