Even before it won the Palme d’Or, Jafar Panahi’s tragicomic revenge thriller IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT marked a momentous feat of filmmaking, as the Iranian master’s first film after a 20-year filmmaking ban imposed on him by his government in 2010, when he was accused of making “propaganda against the state.” Not that this ban, nor even being imprisoned, had managed to curb his creative flow: during this period, Panahi made five films—self-reflexive and probing works, suffused with a keen sense