Perhaps, this is memorable time for Iranian cultural and theatrical people. I watched the movie about a few months ago on internet and I told myself, I shall watch the first half and an hour and get some sleep after that. However, I stayed up to watch the entire 2 hours movie. I was quite moved as I think the topic was quite tangible across human societies.
People have talked about Asghar Farhadi, director, and his great screen play. However, I think one of the best performer who has not be praised enough is Leila Hatami. She by her performance was leading the entire script to where it had to go. She was the leading actress and the best performer of the entire crew.
My hat off to her and of course Shahab Hosseini who plays a radical believer with mass of money and cultural problems, his performance should not be ignored, either.
A behind the scene of the movie:
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The Golden Globe honours the courage and the talent of Asghar Farhadi and his entire film team.
Here is a video showing Leila Hatami, playing the main character in the movie, at the press conference aside the 2011 Berlinale (she speaks german very well, it is a pitty that she had to switch to english for not discriminating the english journalists). She said that the tensions in family relations and in privacy in general can only be understoud by considering the social environment, and that the interference of the society onto privat relationships is a universal problem, independent on the culture, religion or politics.
I think it is a very brave statement. The more I was disappointed to see the footage of another press-conference, this time in Tehran, where the entire film crew was discussing the film with press-people. And at this event, only the male crew-members made long statements, Asgar Farhadi and others, whereas the women (including Leila Hatami and Sareh Bayat) here sitting on the same table, but silent. The camera of the press-conference did not even used them as a beautiful decoration of this official event, only occasionally they rushed over their faces. But what worried me really was that for modern, educated, and brave people (like the film crew) it is still an issue of how far should women stand up and raise their voice in public in the Iranian society which is obviously male dominated.
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