Iranian Films at the 9th Rainbow Film Festival
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25 May - 7 June 2008
Rainbow Film Society is delighted to present the 9th Rainbow Film Festival, taking place at Rich Mix Cultural Foundation, Genesis Cinema, the Brady Arts Centre and Museum in Docklands. The Festival’s main aim is to explore the history and culture of other countries and their traditions and promote cultural diversity and social cohesion. As well as showcasing established artists, the Festival gives a voice to emerging local talent.
www.rainbowfilmsociety.com
MEN AT WORK (KARGARAN MASHGHOULE KARAND)
78 min./ Iran /2006/ Dir. Mani Haghighi/ With: Attila Pesyani, Mahmoud Kalari, Ahmad Hamed/ Cert. 15
‘Sophisticated audiences will enjoy this thoroughly modern spoof on masculine fixations, played out in frank, realistic dialogue.’ Deborah Young, Variety
Based on an idea by pre-eminent Iranian director, Abbas Kiarostami, Men at Work tells the hilarious story of four old friends who, driving back from a skiing trip, encounter an unfamiliar, oddly-shaped giant rock. The men's frivolous attempt to dislodge the rock gradually disintegrates into a tale of betrayal, defeat, and, finally, renewed hope. Trying to shift (an undeniably phallic) rock is both a metaphor for any kind of obstacle that one may face in life, and a pure comedy about how difficult it is to dislodge a big rock from the earth!
Through alternating episodes of silence, physical comedy, emotional outbursts and acts of desperation, we learn of our protagonists’ relationships with women and with each other, but mainly we witness how widely their approaches to solving the ‘problem’ of the rock vary.
Sat 31st May/ Rich Mix Centre/ 7.30 p.m
About the Rainbow Film Society
Started in 1991, the Rainbow Film Society is a non-profit and voluntary socio-cultural organisation, devoted to visual arts and films. The aim and objective of the Society is to advance the education of the public in the knowledge, understanding and appreciation of arts, particularly the art of film and allied visual techniques. The society organises regular film screenings, lectures, discussions, workshops and exhibitions.
Reviewed/approved by Talieh Shahrokhi.
25 May - 7 June 2008
Rainbow Film Society is delighted to present the 9th Rainbow Film Festival, taking place at Rich Mix Cultural Foundation, Genesis Cinema, the Brady Arts Centre and Museum in Docklands. The Festival’s main aim is to explore the history and culture of other countries and their traditions and promote cultural diversity and social cohesion. As well as showcasing established artists, the Festival gives a voice to emerging local talent.
www.rainbowfilmsociety.com
MEN AT WORK (KARGARAN MASHGHOULE KARAND)
78 min./ Iran /2006/ Dir. Mani Haghighi/ With: Attila Pesyani, Mahmoud Kalari, Ahmad Hamed/ Cert. 15
‘Sophisticated audiences will enjoy this thoroughly modern spoof on masculine fixations, played out in frank, realistic dialogue.’ Deborah Young, Variety
Based on an idea by pre-eminent Iranian director, Abbas Kiarostami, Men at Work tells the hilarious story of four old friends who, driving back from a skiing trip, encounter an unfamiliar, oddly-shaped giant rock. The men's frivolous attempt to dislodge the rock gradually disintegrates into a tale of betrayal, defeat, and, finally, renewed hope. Trying to shift (an undeniably phallic) rock is both a metaphor for any kind of obstacle that one may face in life, and a pure comedy about how difficult it is to dislodge a big rock from the earth!
Through alternating episodes of silence, physical comedy, emotional outbursts and acts of desperation, we learn of our protagonists’ relationships with women and with each other, but mainly we witness how widely their approaches to solving the ‘problem’ of the rock vary.
Sat 31st May/ Rich Mix Centre/ 7.30 p.m
About the Rainbow Film Society
Started in 1991, the Rainbow Film Society is a non-profit and voluntary socio-cultural organisation, devoted to visual arts and films. The aim and objective of the Society is to advance the education of the public in the knowledge, understanding and appreciation of arts, particularly the art of film and allied visual techniques. The society organises regular film screenings, lectures, discussions, workshops and exhibitions.
Reviewed/approved by Talieh Shahrokhi.
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