Babak Anvari’s “Wounds” is a movie that tries to toss so many things at its audience, both shockingly surreal and bewilderingly flat, that it ends up crash-landing very early into its running time. Anvari gave us the excellent Iranian-horror allegory “Under the Shadow,” back in 2016 but this sophomore effort, having him shoot in America and in English for the first time, is a mess.
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The short version: "Woman Unknown" was a compromise. The jury deadlocked over "Possible Love" and "NAZA," not able to com to terms, fell back on their #3, May el-Toukhy's film.