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- The Hidden Half
- By: Tahmineh Milani
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The Most Anticipated
Film of The Year Is Finally Here
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- The Hidden Half
- Directed by Tamineh Milani, Starring: Niki Karimi
- Khosrow is sent from the president's office on a
fact-finding mission to Shiraz. His orders are to
investigate the complains of a female political, prisoner,
awaiting execution. Khosro's wife, being of the same
generation as the prisoner, decides to do something about
her situation. In order to help her, Freshteh writes of
her own participation in the revolution, of which her
husband is unaware. In his hotel room in Shiraz, Khosro
begins reading his wife's memories the night before he is
to visit the prisoner. Farsi
with English subtitles, color, Iran, 2001
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- "Hidden Half explores the plight of woman in Iran."
~ Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
- "The film dramatizes events in Iran in 1980." ~
Judy Stone, Los Angeles Times
Special Sale Prices:
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Order VHS: $15.95 or DVD $17.95
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- Footnotes:
- This controversial film from
Tahmineh Milani (Two
Women ,
The
Legend of a Sigh), and some
the director's outspoken remarks, led to her arrest by
Iran's Revolutionary Court (she was later released).
Fundamentalists objected to the sympathetic portrayal of
those who fought against the Islamic Revolution in this
story of a woman remembering her affair with a married man
in the aftermath of the overthrow of the Shah "... a
very serious drama about post-revolutionary Iranian
politics, which is far more complex than we've been led to
believe " (New Times Los Angeles)
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