Women Without Men (2009)
- Original title
- زنان بدون مردان
- Directed by
- Shoja Azari, Shirin Neshat
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Iran, Germany, France, Austria
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Rated
- 12
- Rating
- 6.3 of 10 from 52 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This film follows four women in Tehran during the 1953 coup that restored the Shah. Each woman struggles with the oppressive gender roles of the Islamic world, and their paths cross in unexpected ways.
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What happens
Women Without Men is a 2009 film adaptation of the 1990 Shahrnush Parsipur novel, directed by Shirin Neshat. Neshat's work explores gender issues in the Islamic world. Women Without Men is her first dramatic feature. The film profiles the lives of four women living in Tehran in 1953, during the American-backed coup that returned the Shah of Iran to power. The film was called "visually transfixing" by The New York Times reviewer Stephen Holden, who added, "the film surpasses even Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon in the fierce beauty and precision of its cinematography (by Martin Gschlacht)." Two of the film's recurrent images are of a long dirt road extending to the horizon on which the characters walk, and a river that suggests, "a deep current of feminine resilience below an impassive exterior." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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