Rafi Pitt’s THE HUNTER

Rafi Pitt’s THE HUNTER

From Cinema Scope #46 (Spring 2011). — J.R. Underneath the Persian credits, over heavy metal music, the camera roams around inside a colour photograph, grazing over pointillist surfaces and male faces — finally pulling back to reveal the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps in 1983, getting ready to drive their motorcycles over a huge replica of the American flag on the pavement in front of them. Cut to black and the film’s title, The Hunter. Cut to a…