The filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s recent arrest in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison marks the latest phase in a campaign that the Iranian judiciary has been waging against him for over a decade.
In a world where a movie like “Green Book” can be raked over the coals for the (alleged) crime of being a quaintly retrograde, patronizing-to-the-point-of-seeming-racist film (for the record, I thought it was none of that), “The Best of Enemies,” another middlebrow inspirational drama about a black person and a white person who start off as sniping adversaries, only to work their way toward a redemptive glow of mutual understanding, feels like a film that a number of people could have the knives out for.
