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Asghar Farhadi's film BEAUTIFUL CITY Opens at Film Forum, NYC
Wednesday, March 15 - Tuesday, March 28 • Two Weeks
Showtimes: 1:15, 3:15, 6:00, 8:00, 10:00
Film Forum
209 West Houston Street (West of 6th Avenue)
New York, NY 10014, 212-727-8110, www.filmforum.org
BEAUTIFUL CITY
Written & Directed By Asghar Farhadi
Iran, 2004, 101 Minutes, In Farsi with English Subtitles
IN ISLAMIC IRAN, HOW MUCH IS A WOMAN WORTH IN COMPARISON WITH A MAN — and who pays the difference? Faced with the death penalty for killing his girlfriend at age 16, Akbar is moved to an adult prison at 18 to await execution. The maddening intricacies of the Iranian judicial system have farreaching implications in this moving, piercing drama. The only way Akbar’s life will be spared is if the victim’s family requests clemency. Muslim law stipulates the value of a woman as half that of a man; therefore, the victim’s father must pay the difference between the cost of his daughter and the worth of her murderer to justify his death. A tale of vengeance, labyrinthine judicial procedure and the concept of “blood money.”
From: Alice Chahbazian Mateychak
Posted by 7rooz () at March 15, 2006 1:15 PM
