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Mama’s Guest (Mehman-o-Maman)
by Dariush Mehrjui. Iran, 2004, 108 min, 35 mm New York
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| Iranian New Wave cinema icon Dariush Mehrjui crafts an artful tale with beguiling skill and mastery. The arrival of her nephew and his new bride throws poor Mrs Effat into a crisis. Her larder is too meager to do them honor and she is too proud to lose face. Through self-pity and manipulation, she eventually involves her entire bickering apartment complex in her dilemma. But what begins as comedic farce evolves into something more compassionate: we come to understand each neighbor's struggle and means for coping. All may be poor and even willfully self-deluded, but for one night at least, they create a small miracle of food and happiness on behalf of Mrs. Effat's guest. In Persian with English subtitles. | |||||||||||||
| Filmmaker’s Biography: | |||||||||||||
| Dariush Mehrjui was born in 1939 in Tehran. In the early 1960s he studied cinema at the UCLA in California and, upon returning to Iran, founded the literary magazine Pars Review. His second feature, The Cow (1969), brought him national and international recognition and signaled the emergence of the New Iranian Cinema. Mehrjui has been making quality cinema of all genres ever since and his films have many national and international awards. | |||||||||||||
| Festivals and Awards: | |||||||||||||
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Fajr Film Festival, Tehran, 2004: Best Film • Fort Lauderdale Film Festival, 2004 • Mill Valley Film Festival, 2004 • Boston Festival of Films from Iran, 2004 • 8th Annual Arab Film Festival, San Francisco, 2004 • Goteborg Film Festival, 2005 • 7th Festival of Asian Cinema 2005 • Date Palm Film Festival, New Zealand, 2005 • Eighth Bermuda International Film Festival, 2005 |
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