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"The Hidden Half"
2001
Directed by Tahmineh Milani
This controversial film
from Tahmineh Milani (Two Women, The Legend of a Sigh), and
some of 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. This past romance is
revealed through a letter to her husband, a judge who will be hearing the
case of a woman facing execution. "...a very serious drama about
post-revolutionary Iranian politics, which is far more complex than we've
been led to believe by substandard U.S. reporting" (David Ehrenstein,
New Times Los Angeles). Farsi with English subtitles.
103 minutes.


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