Original title: Farsan
AKA: 800 bullets
Year: 2010
Runtime: 1 hour, 33 minutes
Country: Sweden
Language: Kurdish | Swedish
Subtitles: English | Swedish | Danish | Norwegian | Finnish (.sub/.idx)
Genre: Comedy
Director: Josef Fares
Cast:
Torkel Petersson … Jörgen
Jan Fares … Aziz – Farsan
Hamadi Khemiri … Sami
Juan Rodríguez … Juan
Anita Wall … Edith
Nina Zanjani … Amanda
Jessica Forsberg … Lotta
Plot/Synopsis:
Some movies deal with weightily with philosophical issues around life, relationships, aging and death, while others take the approach of examining those dicey topics more simply, by showing us the lives of ordinary people doing ordinary things, as if we’re a fly on the wall of their lives.
The charming, simple Swedish film Farsan, directed by Josef Fares, takes the latter approach to mostly good effect. Aziz (Jan Fares, the director’s father and a frequent actor in Fares’ films) is a confident, genial older gentleman, widowed ten years but still in love with his dead wife; his life revolves around his adult son, Sami (Hamadi Khemiri), Sami’s expectant wife Amanda (Nina Zanjani), and his impending first grandchild. Aziz smiles and charms his way around the nooks and crannies of his comfortable life and routine.
Amanda and Sami love Aziz, but because they are his primary source of both comfort and social life, they’re also feeling a bit cramped by his blissfully unaware and constant presence in their lives. Neither Sami nor Amanda want to hurt Aziz’s feelings — he really is a very nice, kind-hearted, courtly and old-fashioned sort of gentleman — and so they perpetuate the cycle that’s driving them crazy by never saying what they really think. Amanda, nearing the end of her rope, suggests to Sami that perhaps if Aziz would start dating, they might get a little space without hurting his father’s feelings…. (abridged from Movie City News)
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Farsan (2010)
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