Karimi, who participated in a question and answer session after the second screening, told the audience that acting was never sufficient for her, adding, “I never wanted to reach the age of 40 and still remain an actress. I like to learn.
“The film is not ordinary cinema, the theme was quite personal, and I decided to do whatever I wanted.”
About the dimly-lit scenes throughout the film, she said, “The cinematographer and I decided not to add any additional light to the scenes in order to keep it much closer to reality.”
Asked why so little music was used in the film, she replied, “I do not believe in music for films.”
On the bitter theme of the film, she said, “If I, as a 34-year-old woman in society, felt differently, I would surely have made another film.
“In this movie, I was determined to make use of non-actors, so all three men were non-actors and did not know the screenplay either. In each scene, I told them what to do and what to say. We did not rehearse much, since I myself had the worst experiences with those directors who rehearsed a lot with the actors.
“The film has a social theme and I don’t consider it to be a commercial movie. I did not want to make a feminine film. I was mostly interested in narrating the story in a nonjudgmental way.”
“One Night” will also go on screen in several cinema halls in Paris from January 4.
The film competed with seventeen other movies in the Un Certain Regard section of the 58th Cannes Film Festival which took place in May 2005.
Starring Hanieh Tavassoli, Saeid Ebrahimifar, Nader Torkaman, and Abdolghaffar Dulabi, the film is a tale of a fearless girl who spends a night hitching rides through the deserted streets of Tehran.
Karimi first became popular in Iran for her role in Behruz Afkhami’s hit film “Bride” in 1990. She then appeared in several movies of Iranian filmmakers Dariush Mehrjuii and Ebrahim Hatamikia.
She made her directorial debut with the short film “To Have or to Have Not”.
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