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Niki Karimi,
Niki Karimi,
Atila Pesiani,
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Mohammad Nikbin,
Mohammad Nikbin
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: Facets
: Drama, Foreign, Middle East, Iran
: 108 min.
: Persian
: English
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Made by Tahmineh Milani, one of Iran's most prominent woman directors, The Hidden Half stars Niki Karimi as Fereshteh, an upper middle-class housewife who was a campus radical during Iran's tumultuous cultural revolution in the early 1980s. When her husband, Atila Pesiani, a lawyer, is assigned to defend a woman who faces the death penalty, Fereshteh is moved to write him a letter telling him about her past for the first time in the hopes that the story of her life will help him to understand the plight of the woman he is defending and the inner life of his own wife. Through a series of flashbacks, the film relates Fereshteh's years as an underground Marxist student revolutionary and her affair with a suave writer who seduces her through deception. Milani's film brings to light a mostly hidden aspect of Iran's recent past while making a number of strong feminist points. ~ Tom Vick, All Movie Guide
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| I don't know how people were able to read the subtitles
by johnnyclock
August 17, 2005 - 10:44 PM PDT
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1 out of 1 members found this review helpful
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| which were white on white much of the time. Why people cannot use either black-bordered white or white bordered black for subtitles (so that they would almost always be viewable) I do not know. In this instance, entire conversations went by without my catching a single word. I soon gave up. Not for non-native speakers of the language it is made in. |
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by WDiComo
January 14, 2005 - 4:19 PM PST
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2 out of 2 members found this review helpful
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We all know about the student revolution in the developed world of the late 60's. Well, apparently Iran had one also, only a decade later, corresponding with the overthrow of the Shah. Our heroine is an 18 year old trying to come to terms with the political philosophies that may come to guide the new Iran.
Given that all the knowledge we seem to have is Bush's pronouncement that Iran is included in the world's "triumvirate of evil", it was good to take the opportunity to put a human face on Iran's people. Not essentially a political tale, but it is the backdrop for a coming of age story that is touching and well executed. |
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