Directed by MEHDI GHAZANFARI. 1h 30min<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director, Mehdi Ghazanfari, was born in 1980 in Kashmar, Iran. He studied cinema in Tehran . His professional activities begun in 1998, up to know he directed seven documentary and short films. From 2010 he esstablished his private company, Diba Negah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director Statement<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Every person is playing, each with different cards. Everyone has their own game, but the way others play affects the outcome. Because we are all sitting around the same table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The film The Card Players is a free adaptation of the series of works by the French painter Paul C\u00e9zanne, bearing the same name. It consists of four episodes\u2014Venus, Grafting the Vine, Grapes, and Bitter Wine\u2014each with a different story.<\/p>\n
In the episode Venus, symbolized by Diamonds, the main character has a deep connection with objects. Therefore, this episode places greater emphasis on objects. The main character is inspired by the standing caf\u00e9 owner in Paul C\u00e9zanne\u2019s painting The Card Players.<\/p>\n
The episode Grafting the Vine, symbolized by Clubs, tells the story of a painter who portrays a woman in a garden. This episode emphasizes plants, and the main character is inspired by the figure on the right in Paul C\u00e9zanne\u2019s painting The Card Players.<\/p>\n
In the episode Grapes, symbolized by Spades, we see a young man living with several cats. The focus of this episode is on animals. The young man intends to make a change in his life of crime\u2014not by abandoning it, but by committing crimes independently. This episode is inspired by the man on the left in Paul C\u00e9zanne\u2019s painting The Card Players.<\/p>\n
In the episode Bitter Wine, which follows Grafting the Vine and Grapes, we witness the brief companionship of two strangers. One is a man, an art dealer specializing in unknown painters, and the other is a woman, who previously appeared as a model in Grafting the Vine. The female character is inspired by the woman behind the two card players in Paul C\u00e9zanne\u2019s painting The Card Players.
Symbolized by Hearts, this episode draws inspiration from the central figure in the painting. The two characters become travel companions for less than an hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"movie_genre":[125,214,213],"movie_tag":[88,111,155,172],"class_list":["post-714","movie","type-movie","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","movie_genre-documentary","movie_genre-feature","movie_genre-islamic-republic-of-iran","movie_tag-4k-ultra","movie_tag-brother","movie_tag-king","movie_tag-premieres"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colortapeinternational.eu\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/movie\/714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colortapeinternational.eu\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/movie"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colortapeinternational.eu\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/movie"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colortapeinternational.eu\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colortapeinternational.eu\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colortapeinternational.eu\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colortapeinternational.eu\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"movie_genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colortapeinternational.eu\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/movie_genre?post=714"},{"taxonomy":"movie_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colortapeinternational.eu\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/movie_tag?post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}