Friday January 23 2004, 7:30PM ( Buy ticket )
> DEEP BREATH
(Nafas-E Ameegh)
(2003) Directed by Parviz Shahbazi
This wry, whimsical character study from Parvis Shahbazi may be the
first cinematic account of the urban slacker phenomenon in Iran.
Mansour Shahbazi and Saeed Amini play a couple of listless
twentysomethings, each from opposite ends of the social spectrum but
both equally bored with their constricted lives, which seem to
consist mainly of aimless driving, melancholy reflection and the
occasional bout of petty crime. When the boys pick up a vivacious
young hitchhiker (Maryam Palyzban), her dynamic presence begins to
rouse them from their terminal ennui. Punctuated with beautiful
imagery and comic moments to leaven its examination of a generation
adrift, DEEP BREATH is a sympathetic yet unsparing picture of
disaffected Iranian youth.
Producer: Amir Samavati. Screenplay: Parviz Shahbazi.
Cinematographer: Ali Loghmani. Editor: Parviz Shahbazi. Cast: Mansour
Shahbazi, Maryam Palizban, Saeed Amini. Presented in Farsi dialogue
with English subtitles. 35mm, 82 min.
>>> UCLA PERSIAN FILM FEST
1.7.04 - 2.11.04
UCLA Film and Television Archive & The Bijan Amin and Soraya Amin
Foundation present
14TH ANNUAL CELEBRATION OF IRANIAN CINEMA
Like the nation it reflects so vividly and thoughtfully, Iranian
cinema is at a crossroads. Iran has an overwhelmingly young
population, and almost all of the selections in this survey of recent
Iranian filmmaking concern a generation of young people dissatisfied
with their present situation and uncertain about the future. In very
different ways, LETTERS IN THE WIND and DEEP BREATH movingly and
excitingly depict protagonists caught between adolescent rebellion
and the search for a place in society. Similarly, a new generation of
filmmakers is emerging as the trickle of titles distributed
independently grows to a flood. Like LETTERS IN THE WIND, TEHRAN,
7:00 A.M. is a first film from this independent movement, and like
DEEP BREATH, it represents a break with the kind of filmmaking that
foreign viewers typically associate with Iranian cinema. Instead of
pastoral lyricism or poetic neorealism, these films focus on the
pleasures and displeasures of everyday urban life.
The tradition in Iranian cinema of combining keenly observed realism
and symbolic allegory continues with another first film, DANCING IN
THE DUST. Yet another first feature, BLACK TAPE, combines two
concerns of recent Iranian cinema-the place of women and the place of
the dispossessed Kurds-but with a harsh contemporary edge unusual in
the films from the 1990s that put Iranian cinema on the map. Our
opening night film, CRIMSON GOLD, is a collaboration between two
acknowledged masters, Abbas Kiarostami (TEN) and Jafar Panahi (THE
CIRCLE). This film too is concerned about dehumanizing forces in
Iranian society. It is a concern with global resonance.
Special thanks to: Mark Amin; Bo Smith, Lori Donnelly-Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston; -Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago; Tom Vick-Freer and
Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution; B鲩nice Reynaud-REDCAT;
Zareh Arevshatian.
All films in Farsi with English subtitles.
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