Ghazieh-e Shekl-e Aval, Ghazieh-e Shekl-e Dou Wom

Made in the spring of 1979, not long after the shah’s overthrow, this extraordinary film serves as a Rorschach blot for people in a revolutionary mindset. Abbas Kiarostami stages two versions of a classroom-discipline situation - in one, a student tells on a troublemaker; in the other, seven students refuse to rat - and then has several adult authorities comment on the outcomes. The fascinating responses evoke conflicts between order and resistance. (Criterion)