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Nose, Iranian Style (2005)

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Original title
Damagh be sabke irani
Directed by
Mehrdad Oskouei
Genre
documentary film
Country
Iran
Runtime
52 min
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This Iranian documentary looks at the country's high rate of nose jobs. It interviews people about why they get cosmetic surgery and connects the trend to politics and social pressures. The film also criticizes consumerism while keeping a semi-comedic tone.

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What happens

Nose, Iranian Style is a 2005 Iranian documentary film directed by Mehrdad Oskouei. It is about nose jobs (rhinoplasty) in Iran, which statistically has the most of any country. The documentary employs a semi-comedic tone, with the title referencing the earlier film Divorce, Iranian Style. Nose, Iranian Style relates the trend to politics, with it and the 2007 documentary Tehran: 11 pm connecting it to the importance of appearance, given the taboo of men and women directly and socially interacting. However, Oskouei said the film was truly a critique of excessive consumerism. Variety critic Deborah Young positively reviewed Nose, Iranian Style as "A surprising, compulsively watchable documentary." It became Oskouei's most famous film internationally. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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