Les pieds dans le tapis (2016)
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Golab Adineh, Babak Hamidian, Aurélia Petit, Michel Vuillermoz, Jacques Lacaze, Zhuoer Zhu, Ladan Soleymani, Karim Kadjar, Mohsen Soleymani, Laurent Soffiati, Mahsa Tahmasebi
After an Iranian businessman dies in France, his wife and son face bureaucratic delays as they seek to repatriate his body and investigate his death.
The story
An Iranian businessman regularly travels to Korea for mud baths, but his family is shocked to learn that he has died in Brive-la-Gaillarde, France. His wife and son go to the French town to arrange for his body to be repatriated. They discover that they need official authorization, and a municipal employee says he must consult his superiors to determine whether corpses are subject to an embargo. The procedure is expected to take several weeks. While they wait, mother and son separately begin investigating the circumstances surrounding the businessman’s death.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
An Iranian businessman has gone to Korea, as he regularly does, to take mud baths. His family is surprised to learn of his death in Brive-la-Gaillarde, France. His wife and son travel there to have his body repatriated. They need authorization, but the municipal employee says he must check with his superiors to make sure that corpses are not among the goods subject to an embargo. The process will take several weeks. The mother and son use the time to investigate the circumstances of the businessman's death, each on their own.
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