“It Was Just an Accident” is a departure for Jafar Panahi—a thriller at times reminiscent of Scorsese. But instead of mobsters navigating the violent codes of the underworld, he gives us a cat-and-mouse struggle between former political prisoners and the intelligence apparatus of the state.
In Taxi (2015), Jafar Panahi stages a brief but haunting moment that, in retrospect, feels like the seed of his most recent film, It Was Just an Accident(2025).
