Nakhoda Khorshid

What's the Iranian version of a spaghetti western? A tahdig western? Taghvai turns in the best adaptation of Hemingway's messy novel so far, changing the characters just enough to fit a different context without losing their essential motivations, and films it like he's Leone ducking the holy but slow wrath of God. Even after the revolution, it's all small-time tough guys trying to get ahead while staying within the box of their personal morals, trying and failing to hold that red line.