The Seed of the Sacred Fig's reviews
Media reviews
The Telegraph
The film itself is a mesmerisingly gripping and controlled parable-thriller in which the paranoia, misogyny and rage of the Iranian state are mapped seamlessly onto an ordinary family unit.
Indiewire
Rasoulof crafts an extraordinarily gripping allegory about the corrupting costs of power and the suppression of women under a religious patriarchy that crushes the very people it claims to protect.
Los Angeles Times
By making the political personal, Rasoulof warns us that repression starts at home.
Vanity Fair
This is a sad and frightening story about a family's undoing, but Rasoulof ekes out some hope too.
Screen Daily
The film is uneven: gripping when it maps out psychological stresses in a claustrophobic domestic setting, less so in the final stretches when it incongruously morphs into a women-in-peril thriller.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote