«Holy Spider», a gripping thriller inspired by a true story – Corriere.it

In “Holy Spider“, with a thriller engine that tightens the throat, you see things that never a Iranian movie would allow. Women’s bodies
without veil or veils, a serial killers killing 16 prostitutes to clean up since Sin the holy streets of Mashhad, all of which really happened between 2000 and 2001. The director Ali Abbasiwho lives in Copenhagen, with a European budget he shot the film in Jordan, with difficulty, because it is still a Muslim country.

The Cannes film festival he then awarded the very good one Czar Amir Ebrahimiwho has been living in Paris since 2008 after a video scandal: she is in history the journalist which comes from the capital for frame the killer unobtainable, but which we know well from having seen it strangle hysterical his victims with their own veil. And it is said that, once discovered and condemnedthe police, who have always turned a blind eye, and certain politicians do not offer him support: he is a good, holy father war hero with Iraq.

There urge to kill is followed by the director with dedication and one comes out noir Iranian with some expressionist suspect («m») but equipped with civil consciencefollowing in the footsteps of Iranian cinema, thus also renewing an all-American genre (see “Boston Strangler”). The ending filled with memorable anguishshows the guilty’s little children mimicking their father’s “exploits”, betraying the innocence of the forbidden game and promising alas that the story doesn’t end.