Daughters of the Sun

Name: Daughters of the Sun
Genre: Drama
Released: July 29, 2004
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 65

2004

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Facets Multimedia Distribution | Release Date: July 29, 2004

Summary: This powerful film about women under Islam features a young Iranian woman who hides her identity by dressing as a man, then becomes romantically involved with another young woman.

Director: Maryam Shahriar

Genre(s): Drama

Runtime: 92 min

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David Sterritt

Acted as a drama, paced like a ritual, filmed as a slice of rural Iranian life. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

There’s little dialogue in this gem of a movie, but little is needed. Aman’s anguished face – which recalls Maria Falconetti in “The Passion of Joan of Arc” -- conveys all the information we need. Read full review

Keith Phipps

Never quite finds the rhythm of a great film, and it scores no points for subtlety by including a subplot about a horse breaking free of its master, but Shahriar displays a real gift for conveying Taghani's plight in all its grimness. Read full review

Ted Shen

At times Shahriar succumbs to self-conscious poeticism, and her male characters are invariably thieves and oppressors, but the film draws a good deal of power from the passive anguish of the girl. Read full review

Laura Sinagra

The filmmaker achieves the desired sense of remoteness and claustrophobic doom, and though the story could be told more economically, her slow approach conveys the distended chronology that attends an indentured servitude resembling slavery. Read full review

Dave Kehr

With her shaved head and staring eyes, Aman actually looks as if she had been stripped entirely of her sexuality, like a Holocaust victim. What does seem certain is that a bootleg print of "Yentl" is still making its way through Iran's filmmaking underground, leaving a wide trail of influence behind it. Read full review

Eddie Cockrell

A plea for attention to despicable conditions of female servitude in contempo Iran. Read full review

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ThomasH.

Sep 5, 2007

Glacial pacing, exotic, sad and poor. Window into a strange and foreign land.

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