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PRODUCTION TEAM
Director :
Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
Script :
Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
Photography :
Hossein Jafarian
Editor :
Mostafa Kherghehpoosh, Masumeh Shahnazari
Cast :
Minoo Farshchi, Mani Kasraian, Golab Adineh, Atefeh Razavi, Baran Kosari
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THE MAY LADY
Frough is a 42-year-old director of documentaries who is successful in her profession but finds her personal life to be a little more complicated. Divorced and living with her teenaged son Mani, Frough is considering taking another mate, but Mani can only see her as his mother and he thinks of himself as the man of the house. A subtle war of nerves erupts between mother and son. Rubbing salt into the wounds of Frough's domestic predicament is her current assignment to make a TV documentary on the topic of the model mother. She surrounds herself with videotaped images of women who testify to the hardships women face in society, not of their imaginary ideals. The differences between what Frough feels and what she is expected to film are painfully evident."Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Iran's foremost female auteur, has produced her most personal film in the haunting MAY LADY... While her method recalls the coolly distanced views of Godard, Akerman and Duras, it also emerges organically from the director's own background as a socially engaged documentarian." -- Godfrey Cheshire (Variety)
Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
Born in Tehran in 1954, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad graduated in direction from the Tehran College of Dramatic Arts and began her career as a script girl and assistant director in Iranian television. After a few short documentaries, she directed her first feature, OFF LIMITS, in 1988. She has since directed: CANARY YELLOW (1989), FOREIGN EXCHANGE (1990), NARGESS (1992, shown at the Montreal World Film Festival), Report of 1993 (1994), Spring to Spring (1994), To Whom Are You Showing These Films? (1994), THE BLUE VEILED (1995), The Last Visit to Ms. Iran Daftari (1996) and Under the Skin of the City (1997).
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