Leila (1997)
First screened in May 2020
Director: Dariush Mehrjui. Cast: Leila Hatami, Ali Mosaffa, Jamileh Sheikhi, Amir Pievar, Mohamad Reza Sharifinia, Turan Mehrzad, Shaghayegh Farahani. Screenplay: Mahnaz Ansarian. Twitter Capsule:
Intense drama of interference into couple's reproductive life further complicated by lead's ambivalence, film's sliding POV.
VOR:⑤
A seminal film of 1990s Iranian film, while standing apart sylistically and thematically from those that reaped most buzz. Formally and politically complex.
