Review

The land without a face

Create: Sat, 08/11/2001 - 02:40
Author: MFH

The Guardian
11 Augest 2001
Geoffrey Macnab

Terrible things go on in Afghanistan - everyone knows it. So why is Mohsen Makhmalbaf one of the few film-makers to tackle the subject? Below, the director talks to Geoffrey Macnab; bottom, an extract from his Afghan memoir
 

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Review: The Day I Became A Woman

Create: Tue, 10/03/2000 - 16:00
Author: MFH

Chicago Tribune
October 2000
 
The Day I became a Woman, Review
 
 Modest in appearance and manner, filmmaker Marziyeh Meshkini hardly presents the picture of a radical. "I am not a revolutionary," she says firmly.
But her very existenc as one of less than ten female directors in
Iran and the bold subject matter of her first film, The Day I Became a Woman, suggest
otherwise. Meshkini explicitly examines the effects of culture and tradition

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