Ali Abbasi’s “Holy Spider” has earned early buzz from critics in Cannes as a potential winner of the Palme d’Or, but it’s no doubt shocked audiences for its provocative content, graphic violence and nudity.The Swedish-Iranian Abbasi defended his film in Monday’s press conference by arguing that there’s “nothing controversial” about his film at all, and in fact the Iranian cinema that audiences in Iran and around the world have grown accustomed to seeing has actually presented a “parallel reality.”
Source: Cannes Report Day 7: ‘Holy Spider’ Director Ali Abbasi Explains Iranian Cinema’s ‘Parallel Reality’