Memory keeps slipping through Amin's fingers in Parseh Dar Meh (Wandering in the Fog), Bahram Tavakoli's 2011 drama, where a young composer lost between coma and consciousness tries to piece a life back together from fragments.
What is Parseh Dar Meh about?
Amin is a composer and pianist whose marriage to Roya, a stage actress, begins with promise and slowly buckles under pressure. As setbacks pile up — professional, financial, personal — he abandons his music, drifts away from his wife, and loses his emotional footing altogether. When we meet him he is suspended in a coma, most of his past wiped away, with only mist-shrouded scraps of memory left. Out of those scraps he sets about assembling a new version of his own history, and the film moves with him through that fog, where remembered scenes, imagined ones, and wished-for ones become hard to tell apart. The question underneath is quietly devastating: if you could rebuild your past, would you rebuild the truth?
About the cast
Shahab Hosseini plays Amin opposite Leila Hatami as Roya — two of the most acclaimed Iranian actors of their generation, paired here a few years before each reached wider international recognition. Masoud Rayegan, Ahmad Sa'atchian, Samrand Maroufi, and Azadeh Riazi fill out the supporting cast.
Context & significance
Parseh Dar Meh was an early feature from Bahram Tavakoli, and it cemented his reputation as a filmmaker drawn to fractured psyches and theatrical, dreamlike storytelling — territory he returned to in his later adaptations and war dramas. The film's fluid movement between reality and recollection drew comparisons to modernist European cinema, while its portrait of a struggling artistic marriage kept it rooted in recognisably Iranian middle-class life. It runs a tight 87 minutes and enjoys a solid, unshowy reception — respectable standing for an experimental Iranian drama of its period.
Watching Parseh Dar Meh on Ktime
You can stream Parseh Dar Meh on K-Time after a quick free account login — reading this page requires nothing at all. K-Time serves the Iranian diaspora with a Persian-first interface and a deep library of Iranian cinema, so Tavakoli's moody, music-driven drama sits right alongside the rest of Hosseini's and Hatami's essential work, on television, mobile, and web.