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Cinema Iranica (January 2, 2025) Nativism and utopia in Parviz Kimiavi’s OK Mister. Retrieved from https://cinema-dev.iranicaonline.org/article/7710-2/.
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OK Mister (1978) is Parviz Kimiavi’s final pre-revolutionary film. This article shows how Kimiavi undertakes a trenchant critique of the cultural and social milieu prevailing in Iran during the Shah’s era. Kimiavi’s symbolic and allegorical approach resonates with the post-colonial sensibilities influenced by the nativist and anti-Western ideologies prevalent among Iranian filmmakers and intellectuals during the 1960s.