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- 2004
- Facets Multimedia Distribution
- 1 h 45 m
- 2004
- Facets Multimedia Distribution
- 1 h 45 m
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.
Directed By: Maryam Shahriar
Written By: Maryam Shahriar
- 2004
- Facets Multimedia Distribution
- 1 h 45 m
- 2004
- Facets Multimedia Distribution
- 1 h 45 m
Daughters of the Sun
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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.
Directed By: Maryam Shahriar
Written By: Maryam Shahriar
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Generally Favorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
65
57% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
43% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Acted as a drama, paced like a ritual, filmed as a slice of rural Iranian life.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Production Company
Farabi Cinema Foundation
Release Date Jul 29, 2004
Duration 1 h 45 m
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Awards
L.A. Outfest
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Créteil International Women's Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Rotterdam International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
