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| | Bahman Farmanara |
 | | An early encounter in Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine humorously, but astutely illustrates the aimlessly resigned plight of the impassive, perennially unemployed director Bahman Farjami (Bahman Farmanara) as he apologetically acknowledges to a former actor turned businessman that he hasn't made a film in 24 years. |
 | | The episode, which occurs after Bahman visits the wife of a writer friend, Farzaneh (Parivash Nazarieh) to provide assistance and moral support after the unusual disappearance of her husband, alludes to the reality of the frustrating, often uncertain fate of the middle-aged filmmaker's contemporaries in post-Islamic Revolution Iran. |
 | | By reflecting Bahman's inutile existence through humor and recurring situational absurdity, he transforms his somber, self-reflexive meditation on unrealized ambition, alienation, and mortality into a thoughtful and purgative human comedy on survival, optimism, and resilience.> |
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