In a quietly subversive Iranian drama my favorite cakeMaryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeha give us a delicious slice of life with the bittersweet flavor of late middle-aged romance.
70-year-old Mahin (played by Lily Farhad Pour) lives a lonely life in Tehran. Her husband has been dead for a long time. Her daughter and granddaughter have emigrated, and contact is limited to brief FaceTime chats. Even weekly gatherings of friends have turned into annual events, and gossip has been replaced by discussions of intestinal polyps and other ailments.
One day, Mahin decided to stop living just to survive. She discovers the septuagenarian taxi driver Faramaz (played by Esmael Mehrabi), and she does whatever it takes to seduce him and take him back to her home for a day of music, dancing and wine. night. Lots and lots of wine.
The Iranian regime has raised questions about the wine and the many scenes of Mahsin enjoying herself without a headscarf. The government threatened legal action. They confiscated Moghadam and Sanaeha’s passports, banning them from traveling to Berlin for the film’s world premiere. Cardboard portraits of the two directors appeared at the press conference. my favorite cake It later won the FIPRESCI Competition Award for Best Film from the International Association of Film Critics.
This crowd-pleaser, a celebration of life in response to authoritarian violence, has been sold to more than 20 territories around the world and has become a hit in the UK, where Curzon and Alamode have grossed over 25 million at the box office in Germany and Austria. million dollars. But the film has yet to reach a U.S. distribution deal. This needs to change.
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