Reviews From SFFILM 2021
by
Peter Wong
on
April 13, 2021
The documentary “Radiograph Of A Family” may primarily be filmmaker Firouzeh Khosrovani’s account of her parents’ marriage. But it also manages to be an affecting metaphorical mid-20th century history of Iran’s two major cultural strands without being cloying or blatantly obvious.
The film’s narration begins with the quietly odd statement “Mother married Father’s photograph.” Why the marriage happened that way, the viewer learns, comes from the circumstances of Hossein, Khosrovani’s father. His radiology studies in Geneva, Switzerland were so intense that a request to take time off to get married was pretty much a non-starter.