Tehran Taboo

Name: Tehran Taboo
Genre: Drama, Animation
Released: February 14, 2018
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 74
Cast: Adem Karaduman, Aida Loos, Alireza Bayram, Farhad Abadinejad, Jasmina Ali

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ARP Sélection | Release Date: February 14, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Adem Karaduman, Aida Loos, Alireza Bayram, Farhad Abadinejad, Jasmina Ali, Morteza Latif, Rozita Assadollahy, Sasan Behroozian, Siir Eloglu, Zahra Amir Ebrahimi

Summary: In the bustling metropolis of Tehran, avoiding prohibitions has become an everyday sport and breaking taboos can be a means of personal emancipation. Nevertheless, women invariably end up on the bottom rung of the social order. A young woman needs an operation to “restore” her virginity. A judge in the Islamic Revolutionary Court exhortsIn the bustling metropolis of Tehran, avoiding prohibitions has become an everyday sport and breaking taboos can be a means of personal emancipation. Nevertheless, women invariably end up on the bottom rung of the social order. A young woman needs an operation to “restore” her virginity. A judge in the Islamic Revolutionary Court exhorts favors from a prostitute in exchange for a favorable ruling. The wife of an imprisoned drug addict is denied the divorce she needs in order to live independently. [Kino Lorber]… Expand

Director: Ali Soozandeh

Genre(s): Drama, Animation

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 90 min

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Diego Semerene

Feb 14, 2018

The film is full of astute, and poetically staged, critiques of the parallel worlds resulting from Iran's police state. Read full review

Gary Goldstein

Mar 11, 2018

That the film is animated, yet feels so thoroughly real, is a testament to its vivid use of rotoscoping as well as a solid script by director Ali Soozandeh, an Iranian expatriate. Read full review

The Guardian Leslie Felperin

Oct 4, 2018

The script crackles with such bleak little jokes like this, relieving the tension in a work that could otherwise prove overwhelmingly depressing and borderline melodramatic. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Godfrey Cheshire

Feb 14, 2018

Using skillful, involving storytelling and beautifully executed rotoscoped photography, director Ali Soozandeh creates a world of intersecting urban miseries and challenges. Read full review

Sara Stewart

Feb 15, 2018

It’s a more somber companion to Marjane Satrapi’s 2007 film “Persepolis,” which explored life under the Iranian Revolution with dark humor: Here, the laughter’s mostly a prelude to tears. Read full review

Deborah Young

Feb 14, 2018

While its frank approach is refreshing, there is a sense of too much. Read full review

The Observer (UK) Wendy Ide

Oct 8, 2018

The characters and plotting tend to be a little schematic, but just because the trajectories of the women’s narratives are predictable, it doesn’t follow that the story lacks power. On the contrary – this is fearless, potent storytelling. Read full review

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