
Monday October 30, 2006
[ Art (هنر) ]
Films For Bostonians
Museum of Fine Arts in Boston hosts a showing of Iranian films from November 10 to December 3, 2006. (Thanks go to the East Coast colleague who pointed me to the film festival at MFA.)
I highly recommend "Cease Fire," a film made by director Tahmineh Milani only last year. It is really a man vs. woman farce
complete with a character who is seeking a sex transformation surgery.
(Yes, they make movies like that in the Islamic Republic of Iran.) I
should add that "Cease Fire" falls far short of the usual films Iranian
directors have dished to international film festivals but it is a great
example of Iranian pop films which rarely make it abroad. "Cease Fire"
has broken all previous box-office records in Iran. Of course, that is
nothing to compare with the numbers from Ballywood or Hollywood.
2006-10-30 12:46:38.0 --
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