Going By - 2001

Directed by Iraj Karimi

Four separate carloads of people travel from Tehran to northern Iran. The movie centers around the conversations that take place within each car and the chance circumstances under which the separate travelers' paths cross. The movie marks the first time behind the camera for long-time film critic Iraj Karimi.

Color, 1 hour 26 minutes, Farsi

Original Title: Az Kenar-e-ham Mi Gozarim

Trailer currently not available, Watch Scene (Farsi w/English subtitles)

Star Rating

Never Ranked

Cast

Fariba Kamran	Jaleh
Mehran Rajabi	Hearse Driver
Shahrokh Forutanian	Father
Nazanin Farahani	Second Woman
Seyyed Ebrahim Emadi	Farmer
Mehrdad Mohtashami	Aras's Father
Shahnam Shahabi	Behzad
Sepanta Samandarian	Sepanta
Aras Hodai	Aras
Ali Asghar Mirzaei	Man with Tire

Crew

Writer	Iraj Karimi
Director	Iraj Karimi
Producer	Hossein Zandbaf
Director of Photography	Kazem Shahbazi
Sound Recordist	Yadollah Najafi
Editor	Hossein Zandbaf
Sound Mixer	Mohammad Haghighi
Music	Peiyman Yazdanian

Pictures

The movie opens with a film crew shooting a hearse as it makes its way down a country road.

Young Aras (Aras Hodai) reads anything he can get his hands on, including a script that he finds on the set of the film.

The recently widowed Jaleh (Fariba Kamran) travels with the former mistress of her husband. The two learned of one another at the funeral and somehow manage a trip together to remember the deceased.

The driver of the hearse (Mehran Rajabi), who volunteered his vehicle for the film, now makes his way north as well. He tells his grieving passenger of his former job as a Tehran cab driver and the advantages of driving a hearse, "now my passenger sits still and silent."

The old man and his cargo.

A wide shot of the countryside as the widow and mistress speak on the merits of painting landscapes versus portraits.

The father (Shahrokh Forutanian) questions his older son Behzad's choice to become a film critic, "have you ever thought that they would not give much money for sitting and swearing at movies?"