Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

VividSimon Simply Perfect

Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Sindre Kaspersen Iranian visual artist Shirin Neshat's first narrative feature which she co-wrote with writer Steven Henry Madoff and Iranian-American screenwriter, producer and director Shoja Azari who also worked as co-director on the film, is based on a short novel by Iranian author Shahrnush Parsipur. It premiered In competition at the 66th Venice International Film Festival in 2009, was screened in the Special Presentations section at the 34th Toronto International Film Festival in 2009 and is a Germany-Austria-France co-production which was shot on location in Casablanca, Morocco and produced by producers Philippe Bober, Martin Gschlacht and Susanne Marian. It tells the story about a middle-aged singer named Fakhri who lives in an emotionless marriage, a prostitute named Zarin whom is troubled by her customers changing faces, a young woman named Faezeh who loses her dreams of marriage and her a woman named Munis who strongly objects to her brothers rules during a summer in Theran, Iran 1953.In 1990, Iranian author Shahrnush Parsipur wrote the magic-realist novel "Women without Men", was arrested during the release of the book and pressured by the Iranian government who banned the book in the mid-1990s and her from continuing to write the way she did. Shirin Neshat's adaptation of a story that entwines the lives of four women is set against the backdrop of the Iranian coup d'état in 1953 where the democratically elected prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh (1882-1967) was overthrown by the British secret intelligence service MI6 and the United States central intelligence agency CIA. This character-driven and narrative-driven feature film debut which is narrated from multiple viewpoints with a fragmented narrative structure, which combines facts and fiction and which is notable for it's adventurous and colorful milieu depictions, sterling production design and costume design, evocatively and unsentimentally depicts the suppression of women in a sex segregated society and a nations protest against an historic governmental change.Exiled Shirin Neshat who started her artistic work as a photographer is an aesthetic, allegoric and contrasting art film where the realistic and the surreal converges. Her vision of a mid-19th century Iran is emphasized by the symbolic and prominent cinematography by cinematographer Martin Gschlacht and her archetype style of filmmaking is characterized by quiet camera movements, varied atmospheres, distinct female portraits, remote recordings and long takes without dialog. With this profoundly moving directorial debut which contains one of the most brutally expressive though cinematically masterful scenes in modern cinema history and which gained, among other awards, the Silver Lion for Best Director at the 66th Venice Film Festival in 2009, individualistic filmmaker Shirin Neshat who immigrated to the United States at the age of seventeen has hopefully reinforced the opportunities for future Iranian filmmakers who are limited by the fundamentalist Islamic regime. A political character piece and a social comment that leaves loud echoes.

shahryar hashemi Great story, being a Persian, I always heard about the Coup but I could never picture how was it like living at that time, and Shirin Neshat in the best way possible combined it with a love story. Munes wants to be knowledgeable about social and sexual matters (in the film she wants to be a political activist); Faezeh is a traditional Muslim woman who wants a good marriage; Zarin Kolah is a prostitute dreaming of a better future, and Farok-Lagha is a wealthy woman determined to become an influential figure on the political scene. All four end up in a house with a garden in a Tehran suburb, striving for a future that was not granted to them. Gardens are popular in the middle East and especially in Iran, where a garden is a metaphor for paradise.

alexanderjosefina bad movies are just bad,cause they are nit done well, have no scripts, or terrible actors, lighting is wrong and above all director is just far off the line of what movie making is all about. this terribly bad film has it all in it. and all that shows how invaluable, stupid, and worthlessness all world festivals are all together to get all these stupid films merits and awards. man i was almost wet in my pants as it went on every 10 minutes. bad movie from a good artist, but hell who said all artists should make films. this one is out of pure complexions from an artist who wants to be taken seriously as an director. sorry girl, you have miles to go to get there . go back to your art

Red-125 Women Without Men (2009) is an Iranian film whose original title is Zanan-e bedun-e mardan. It was directed by Shirin Neshat and Shoja Azari. The title "Women Without Men" is misleading, because the women are only "without" men because they are able temporarily to escape from the men in their lives by moving to a rural estate.The movie takes place in 1953, when the CIA helped overthrow the democratic government of Iran and put the Shah into power. Some of the women are running from government oppression, and some of them are running from the oppression of the men in their lives. The women in the film had few acceptable options--probably an accurate reflection of the lives of women in Iran during this period. It's a grim situation, and it's depicted in a grim film. I don't have the expertise to know how faithful the film is to the novel on which it's based, or to the reality of events in 1950's Iraq. That information will have to come from an expert. (My guess is that the portrayal of women's lives is pretty accurate.)This is a powerful film. We saw it at the excellent Rochester 360-365 film festival--dumb name but great festival. There's enough in this film to make it worth seeing, but, in my opinion, not enough to warrant seeking it out at all costs. It should work well on a small screen.