Karel Hendriks’s review published on Letterboxd:
"Why am I even telling you this?"
A woman in a war-torn Afghan village pours her heart out to her husband, who is - incidentally - in a vegetative state following a bullet to the neck. Gradually this act of expression, openly resisting patriarchy and addressing the cumulative disappointment of 10 years of unhappy marriage, transforms her - even allowing her to hope for a brief moment that it might transform her captive audience too. The narrative is flawed and more than a little exploitative, but it is brave and explicit too, while Golshifteh Farahani is spellbinding.