| Brief Description: | Darioush Mehrjui's bold Hamoon not only made it past that country's
censors, it was widely shown in Teheran and emerged as one of the
year's most popular films, winning six Iranian film awards. A
well-to-do Teheran painter (Bita Farrahi), suffering from the
seven-year-itch, has an affair with a patron and tells her
Western-educated psychiatrist that she wants a divorce and complains
bitterly about the Iranian government's treatment of women. Her
despondent philosopher husband (Khosro Shakibai), accused of beating
his wife, has a breakdown and seeks comfort from his grandmother, and
both agree that religion is a fraud. Farsi with English subtitles. |
