NR | 1h 17m | Drama | 2024
Arguing with a bureaucrat is usually a fool’s errand. However, arguing with a bureaucrat vested with a small degree of power by a toxic ideology can be a Kafkaesque undertaking. Yet that is what many average Iranians face on a regular basis. Director-screenwriters Alireza Khatami and Ali Asgari focus on nine such Iranians as they try to negotiate with minor, unsympathetic authority figures in “Terrestrial Verses.”