Reading Lolita in Tehran
...a respectable, aptly rebellious and deeply feminine exercise.
Reading Lolita in Tehran
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.
Genre
Bio-pic,
Literary Adaptation,
Women and Film,
World Affairs
Web Site
Runtime
108
Language
Persian,
English
Director
Eran Riklis
Producer
Gianluca Curti,
Eran Riklis,
Moshe Edery,
Michael Sharfstein,
Marica Stocchi,
Santo Versace
Writer(s)
Marjorie David,
Eran Riklis,
Azar Nafisi
Cast
Golshifteh Farahani,
Zar Amir Ebrahimi,
Mina Kavani
Opening at
Royal on Jul 17th
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