20 Fingers, w/Eng subtitles (DVD)

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Twenty Fingers Movie by Mania Akbari

20 Fingers (DVD)
A film by: Mania Akbari (2004 , 75 min)

بیست انگشت - ساخته مانیا اکبری

20 Fingers, an unflinchingly honest study of gender games in contemporary Tehran. In a series of intimate dialogues, a man and a woman (played by Akbari and Daneshmand) find the established boundaries of their relationship being pushed further than ever before. In each scene the couple (who may not be the same couple in every scene) confront different aspects of contemporary life - abortion, homosexuality, infidelity - the woman's modern idealism clashing with her husband's more traditional attitude. In one scene, the man is angered by the woman's dancing with another man; in another, she cannot tolerate her husband's refusal to allow her an abortion. The couples play a succession of psychological games - the jealousy game, the betrayal game, the independence game - in which the female is consistently the stronger player, albeit sometimes a morally questionable one. Each scene occurs in a confined space - a ski-lift, a moving car, a train compartment, a table in the corner of a Tehran café. The hand-held digital photography literally confines the audience to narrow camera angles just as the couple's relationship is metaphorically confined by the husband's restricted points of view.

Format: DVD
Runtime: 75 minutes
Type: Marital Issues
Language: In Farsi with English subtitles
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20 Fingers, w/Eng subtitles (DVD)

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