Jafar Panahi
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(Much happens offscreen, while the first and last shots which recall the ending of Antonioni's "The Passenger" - are long, static ones through heavy window gates, as forbidding as prison bars).
Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation, for instance, speaks volumes on local judicial functioning over a couple’s domestic drama…
As with “A Separation” and “Woman and Child,” its fellow Cannes entry from Iran this year, the ever-escalating series of events in “It Was Just an Accident” makes a potent thriller.
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024)
Directed by Mohammad Rasoulof
influenced It Was Just an Accident (2025)
Themes
Mahmoud Rassoulouf’s stressful docudrama The Seed of the Sacred Fig breaks down a family when a state judge’s personal gun goes missing…
…his contemporary Mohammad Rasoulof (last year’s Cannes competition title “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”)…
The Martian (2015)
Directed by Ridley Scott
influenced by The White Balloon (1995), The Circle (2000), Offside (2006)
He is the Iranian director whose works include “The White Balloon” (1995), “The Circle” (2000), and “Offside” (2006).
He is the Iranian director whose works include “The White Balloon” (1995), “The Circle” (2000), and “Offside” (2006).
He is the Iranian director whose works include “The White Balloon” (1995), “The Circle” (2000), and “Offside” (2006).
Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Directed by Vittorio De Sica
influenced It Was Just an Accident (2025)
Visuals
There’s a neo-realist quality to the setting and characterisation that’s reminiscent of “Bicycle Thieves” (1948) or “Umberto D” (1952).
Is Panahi a fan of the Coen Brothers’ “Blood Simple” (1984)?
Weekend at Bernie's (1989)
Directed by Ted Kotcheff
influenced It Was Just an Accident (2025)
Themes
It sounds like the beginning of a joke straight out of a 90s comedy, like Weekend at Bernie's and Very Bad Things.
It sounds like the beginning of a joke straight out of a 90s comedy, like Weekend at Bernie's and Very Bad Things.
When thinking of other ‘political’ Palme wins, the blatancy of Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 still lingers in the minds of some, but we’re a long way from that kind of agitprop…
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Directed by Joel Coen
influenced It Was Just an Accident (2025)
Themes
Comparisons to neo-western classics like No Country for Old Men and Hell or High Water are fully warranted as It Was Just An Accident is the kind of engrossing thriller that despite its clear political undercurrent is simply an engrossing story that’s exceptionally well told.
Hell or High Water (2016)
Directed by David Mackenzie
influenced It Was Just an Accident (2025)
Themes
Comparisons to neo-western classics like No Country for Old Men and Hell or High Water are fully warranted as It Was Just An Accident is the kind of engrossing thriller that despite its clear political undercurrent is simply an engrossing story that’s exceptionally well told.
AlRawabi School for Girls (2021)
Directed by Tima Shomali
influenced It Was Just an Accident (2025)
Themes
But as long as movies like this, and similar Middle Eastern media like “AlRawabi School For Girls” (2021-present) continue to speak up for the oppressed in the face of authoritarianism, the cinema will always be a space for powerful political platforming.
As with “A Separation” and “Woman and Child,” its fellow Cannes entry from Iran this year, the ever-escalating series of events in “It Was Just an Accident” makes a potent thriller.
One Battle After Another (2025)
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
influenced It Was Just an Accident (2025)
Themes
Like Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another,” Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Just an Accident” deftly employs absurdist comedy to make deathly serious observations about the spirit-crushing effects of fascism.
Is it as good as Trier’s Sentimental Value or Schilinski’s Sound of Falling?
Is it as good as Trier’s Sentimental Value or Schilinski’s Sound of Falling?
Like Inland Empire or Synecdoche, New York, Closed Curtain examines the very nature of storytelling in a twisting, postmodern way.