Chess of the Wind Screening at the Kimbell Cultural Event Center
- Admission: $7
The Queen’s Film Society presents Mohammed Reza Aslani’s Chess of the Wind (1976), a rediscovered masterpiece of gothic horror from pre-revolutionary Iran for its February arthouse screening.
Set in the 1920s, the film unfolds within a noble household, as the daughter, Lady Aghdas (“Fakhri Khorvash”), vies for her mother’s inheritance against the ambitious Hadji Amoo (“Mohamad Ali Keshavarz”) and his nephews, Ramazan and Shaban. Presumed lost and newly restored, Chess of the Wind has been described as an “enigmatic work” (The Criterion Collection) and a “gothic family thriller” (The Guardian), told in a “poetically measured style” (New York Times).