Mississippi Records Music & Film: Chess of the Wind
If Chess of the Wind doesn't sound intriguing to you, I don't know what will: Mohammad Reza Aslani's banned and forgotten gem of the pre-Revolution Iranian New Wave (literally, it was found in an antique shop in 2014) is a fashionable, queer murder mystery. The film follows the venomous heirs of a matriarch's estate as they connive each other from the shadowy wings of a candlelit mansion (as a Succession fan, I'm listening) and features an eerie Sheida Gharachedaghi score. Thanks, Mississippi Records!
by Lindsay Costello