Like Ahmadzadeh’s debut film, “Kami’s Party,” “Atom Heart Mother” offers a telling portrait of a certain type of educated, upper-middle-class urbanite and their hopes, dreams and uncertainties.
While “Taxi,” Jafar Panahi’s humanist take on the Iranian road-movie genre, triumphed in the Berlinale competition, over in the festival’s Forum section his countryman Ali Ahmadzadeh used some of the same Tehran streets by night for his original and disturbing “Atom Heart Mother.” Pitched somewhere between dream and reality, Ahmadzadeh’s surreal pic is an electrifyingly wacko tale of two party girls and their close encounter with someone who may or may not be the devil. Although certain absurdist aspects will prove more meaningful to Farsi speakers, the allegorical elements invite universal appreciation, as do the film’s discussions of nuclear energy and pop culture, and an exuberant rendition of “We Are the World.”
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