Tales (Iranian Movie on DVD)

فیلم سینمایی قصه ها

A Film by: Rakhshan Bani Etema (Only In Farsi Language, No Subtitles)

Actors: Golab Adineh, Mohammad Reza Foroutan, Saber Aber, Nagar Javaherian, Baran Kosari

"Another Brave film by acclaimed Iranian director, Rakhshan Bani-Etemd"

A series of seven vignettes about different people dealing with their every day problems in modern day Iran, that are loosely related to each other.
Iran’s best-known female director, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, gathers strands from her previous dramas for a summation of her career and her nation in "Tales." The film was ostensibly conceived as a series of shorts, making it possible to get a license under the Ahmadinejad regime, but with the current government she’s been able to string together these stories of crushed hopes, addiction, abuse, and love. Like much here, the use of a docu filmmaker as a protag to make pointed remarks about the necessity of socially engaged cinema is rather too easy, yet the script excels at dialogue negotiating the male-female divide. A small international release is possible.

For the past eight years, Bani-Etemad stuck to documentaries, unwilling to make the compromises necessary under Ahmadinejad to get a feature made. Now that Iran’s government is friendlier to culture, she’s released this film, begun under the previous regime. It’s helpful, but hardly necessary, to be familiar with Bani-Etemad’s previous work (“Under the City’s Skin,” “Gilaneh,” etc.), since the characters in “Tales” are mostly people she’s brought in from earlier pics. Knowing them provides additional depth, though there’s no loss of comprehension without it.

Format: DVD

Language: Farsi with NO subtitles

Run Time: 116 minutes
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