Fifi Howls from Happiness

Name: Fifi Howls from Happiness
Genre: Documentary
Released: August 8, 2014
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 76

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Music Box Films | Release Date: August 8, 2014 | Not Rated

Summary: Mitra Farahani’s lyrical documentary explores the enigma of provocative artist Bahman Mohassess, the so-called “Persian Picasso,” whose acclaimed paintings and sculptures dominated pre-revolutionary Iran.

Director: Mitra Farahani

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 96 min

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Keith Uhlich

Aug 5, 2014

You might actually say the documentary itself is Mohassess’s final canvas, so infused it becomes with his alternately infuriating and infectious personality. Read full review

Michael Atkinson

Aug 5, 2014

The lovely ball-&-socket meeting of the two artists' sensibilities is what makes the doc sing, even if it is a chronicle of a death foretold. Read full review

Diego Semerene

Aug 4, 2014

Mitra Farahani rescues the doc from becoming a talking-head fest by embracing her creative self as a character and exposing the travails of her own authorship process. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Godfrey Cheshire

Aug 8, 2014

As if to confirm how crucial timing is to documentaries, the artist gives the filmmaker a last performance that helps make her portrait of him as extraordinary as the man it portrays. Read full review

Robert Abele

Aug 13, 2014

By its bittersweet end, Fifi Howls From Happiness has stayed almost entirely in one apartment and yet somehow unveiled both a life in full and a blank canvas. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Aug 7, 2014

A provocative portrait of an artist who seemed hell-bent on destroying his own legacy. Read full review

Charles Bramesco

Aug 5, 2014

Farahani’s elegiac documentary takes far more interest in Mohassess the man than Mohassess the artist. Read full review

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MrMazz

Aug 25, 2014

Magnificent in so many ways, this intimate depiction of one of the most interesting and complex characters of pre-revolution Iranian contemporary art scene takes your breath away.

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