Reading Lolita In Tehran
Drama
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2024
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English, Farsi
Directed by
Eran Riklis
Cast
Golshifteh Farahani, Zar Amir, Mina Kavani
Producers
Marica Stocchi, Gianluca Curti, Moshe Edery, Santo Versace, Eran Riklis, Michael Sharfshtein
Synopsis
As Islamic morality squads stage arbitrary raids in Tehran and as fundamentalists seize hold of the universities, Azar Nafisi, an inspired teacher, secretly gathers six of her most committed female students to read forbidden western classics. Unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, they soon removed their veils, their stories intertwining with the novels they read: just like the heroines of Nabokov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James or Jane Austen, the women in Nafisi’s living room dare to dream, hope and love as we experience the complexity of the lives of individuals facing political, moral and personal siege. Reading Lolita in Tehran is a remarkable exploration of women's resilience in revolutionary Iran.BASED ON THE BEST-SELLING BOOK BY AZAR NAFISI
LE FIGARO: Reading Lolita in Tehran - MUST SEE! ✭✭✭✭✭
Israeli director Eran Riklis faithfully adapts Azar Nafizi's bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, published in 2003 and translated into 32 languages. In the long line of recent films about the tyranny wrought upon the Iranian people for the past 35 years, this one could be seen as a beginning: once upon a time, there was the young Islamic Republic.
LE POINT: “Reading Lolita in Tehran” ✭✭✭✭
Lesson in freedom
Reading Lolita in Tehran is both an ode to freedom and a beautiful portrait of an intellectual in revolt, thanks to a Golshifteh Farahani performance of moving intensity. The film is all the more powerful because of several actresses – Farahani, Zar Amir Ebrahimi , Mina Kavani – who now live in exile, far from their native country, because of the mullahs' dictatorship.
VANITY FAIR: A moving story about the power of literature and sisterhood
LIBERATION: “Reading Lolita in Tehran” lifts the veil with Golshifteh Farahani
Eran Riklis's film about an Iranian teacher's resistance that resonates deeply with the Women, Life, Freedom movement.
LES ECHOS: Eran Riklis adapts Azar Nafisi's beautiful autobiographical book by reconstructing Tehran in Rome in the late 1980s. A careful reconstruction, which strangely evokes our own era, carried by a masterful trio of exiled actresses
ALLOCINE: Reading Lolita in Tehran is the movie to see this week!
TELERAMA: Golshifteh Farahani shines in this vibrant feminine fresco
VERSION FEMINA: A must-see
SENSE CRITIQUE: A film that particularly touched me, a must-see
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