List of Persian/Iranian Events for 2004-01-23

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.

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