DVD
Tehran taboo
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Languages
In Farsi, with optional English subtitles.
Performers
Elmira Rafizadeh, Zahra Amir Ebrahimi, Arash Marandi, Bilal Yasar, Hasan Ali Mete.
Publication Information
New York, NY : Kino Lorber, [2018]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (94 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
In this animated drama, the lives of several strong-willed women and a young musician intersect. Their stories reveal the hypocrisies of modern Iranian society, where sex, drugs, and corruption coexist with strict religious law. In the bustling metropolis of Tehran, avoiding prohibitions has become an everyday sport and breaking taboos can be a means of personal emancipation. Nevertheless, women invariably end up on the bottom rung of the social order. A young woman needs an operation to "restore" her virginity. A judge in the Islamic Revolutionary Court exhorts favors from a prostitute in exchange for a favorable ruling. The wife of an imprisoned drug addict is denied the divorce she needs in order to live independently. Making use of rotoscope animation, expat Iranian filmmaker Ali Soozandeh creates a portrait of contemporary Tehran that would be impossible by other means.
Notes
Title from container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2016.