Reading Lolita in Tehran
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28 Apr14:30BruggeCinema Lumière
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3 May16:30BruggeCinema Lumière
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3 May20:00TurnhoutUGC
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4 May11:30TurnhoutUGC
Professor Azar Nafisi forms a book club with a few female students, where they read forbidden Western classics. Over a span of more than twenty years, during which the restrictions on women become increasingly strict, we hear them openly discuss topics like emotions, relationships, and sex.
Like the book, the film is divided into chapters named after books or writers. Fortunately, you don’t need to have read the book to understand the film. It is a film about literature and the position of women. Many films have been made about both topics, but this one offers a unique perspective: women discover how literature helps them understand their own situation and find strength through reading together and discussing emotions, relationships and sex.
- direction
- Eran Riklis
- cast
- Golshifteh Farahani, Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Mina Kavani
- duration
- 108 min
- year
- 2024
- country
- Italy
- language
- Persian, English
- Subtitles
- English, Dutch
festival
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"Intimate adaption of Azar Nafisi’s memoir is inherently feminine and political." – Tomris Laffly, Variety