{"id":2197909,"date":"2025-12-13T18:44:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T18:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2197909"},"modified":"2025-12-13T18:44:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T18:44:15","slug":"black-rabbit-white-rabbit-review-disqualified-for-the-oscars-tajikistan-drama-is-an-inviting-meandering-meta-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/black-rabbit-white-rabbit-review-disqualified-for-the-oscars-tajikistan-drama-is-an-inviting-meandering-meta-narrative\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Black Rabbit, White Rabbit\u2019 Review: Disqualified for the Oscars, Tajikistan Drama Is an Inviting, Meandering Meta-Narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Selected by Tajikistan but ultimately not accepted by the Academy to compete in the Oscar international feature category, \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt37981111\/\">Black Rabbit, White Rabbit<\/a>\u201d begins ambitiously, with a famous quote from playwright <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0155009\/\">Anton Chekhov<\/a> about setups and payoffs \u2014 about how if a gun is established in a story, it must go off. Moments later, an inviting long take involving a young man selling an antique rifle ends in farcical tragedy, signaling an equally farcical series of events that grow stranger and stranger. The film, by Iranian director <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3640095\/\">Shahram Mokri<\/a>, folds in on itself in intriguing (albeit protracted) ways, warping its meta-fictional boundaries until they supersede its characters, or any underlying meaning.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it\u2019s a not-altogether-uninteresting exercise in exploring the contours of storytelling, told through numerous thematically interconnected vignettes. The opening Chekhov quote, though it might draw one\u2019s attention to minor details that end up insignificant, ensures a heightened awareness of the movie\u2019s artifice,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selected by Tajikistan but ultimately not accepted by the Academy to compete in the Oscar international feature category, \u201cBlack Rabbit, White Rabbit\u201d begins ambitiously, with a famous quote from playwright Anton Chekhov about setups and payoffs \u2014 about how if a gun is established in a story, it must go off. 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