It’s complicated.
Well, not so much ethically. Taghi Amirani’s documentary Coup 53 is pretty clear-cut in that way. Instead, it is complicated simply because it’s so dense, bursting at the seams with historical context and information. And despite its imperfections, that’s understandable. Having first spoken about making Coup 53 in 2012, Amirani’s project has gestated for around a decade now. “My film has taken so long to finish that some of the people I’ve interviewed have since died,” he says in the first two minutes. It’s clear he’s in a race against time to get the story and, for better or for worse, it’s hard to fault him for it.
The tale he weaves concerns the 1953 coup against Mohammad Mosaddegh, Iran’s first democratically elected Prime Minister. The job was a staged effort between the CIA and MI6. America––not Britain––had...
Well, not so much ethically. Taghi Amirani’s documentary Coup 53 is pretty clear-cut in that way. Instead, it is complicated simply because it’s so dense, bursting at the seams with historical context and information. And despite its imperfections, that’s understandable. Having first spoken about making Coup 53 in 2012, Amirani’s project has gestated for around a decade now. “My film has taken so long to finish that some of the people I’ve interviewed have since died,” he says in the first two minutes. It’s clear he’s in a race against time to get the story and, for better or for worse, it’s hard to fault him for it.
The tale he weaves concerns the 1953 coup against Mohammad Mosaddegh, Iran’s first democratically elected Prime Minister. The job was a staged effort between the CIA and MI6. America––not Britain––had...
- 8/19/2020
- by Matt Cipolla
- The Film Stage
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