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"The vermouth needs to be fresh, the glass should be in the freezer till the very last minute right before being poured," Ford says. "When it comes to making a martini, all the ingredients need to be treated with a lot of respect. It's a very sophisticated cocktail. It almost reeks of sophistication, and in terms of booze, it's much like a Manhattan or an old fashioned: it's a stirred, spirits-forward cocktail. If you live in a cold climate, a martini is a warming drink and fits quite nicely into a celebratory holiday. It's also a treat; a martini is not an everyday drink."
EN The story behind The Seed of the Sacred Fig is almost as remarkable as what's on screen. Its writer-director, Mohammad Rasoulof, had served time in prison in Iran for speaking out against the regime, and so he shot the film in secret. Shortly after it was chosen to be shown at the Cannes Film Festival, Rasoulof was sentenced to eight more years in prison, but he managed to flee the country, and made it to Cannes in time for the red-carpet premiere. The Seed of the Sacred Fig went on to be one of the festival's most acclaimed films. Its central characters, Iman (Misagh Zare) and Najmeh (Soheila Golestani), are determined to stay out of trouble after Iman is promoted to a well-paid government job, so tensions rise when their two daughters, Rezvan (Mahsa Rostami) and Sana (Setareh Maleki), show signs of rebelling. "This searing domestic thriller deserves the widest audience possible," says Ryan Lattanzio in IndieWire. "Rasoulof crafts an extraordinarily gripping allegory about the corrupting costs of power and the suppression of women under a religious patriarchy that crushes the very people it claims to protect."
