“The Last Act”, interview with the director Payman Shahbod

The Last Act” by Paymon Shahbod was screened in the Features Competition at the 42nd Torino Film Festival. The film narrates the story of an actress whose real life is reflected in the plot of the movie she is shooting. We talked about this film within the film with the director Paymam Shahbod, on the occasion of the screenings in Torino.

A chambre film built as a road movie

“The Last Act” is about a film crew shooting a film, on a bus travelling continuously in the countryside outside Teheran. But as the director Payman Shahbod tells us it is also a chamber film as the sìaction of the ongoing shooting takes place alway and only inside a bus, creating an intimate and small world closed to th