Thursday, August 23, 2018

Tehran Taboo (2017)

Director: Ali Soozandeh. Cast:  Farhad Abadinejad, Jasmina Ali, Rozita Assadollahy. 96 min. Germany/Austria. Animation.

Interconnecting motion-capture animated stories of three women in current day Tehran. I have issues with films delivering an opening shock of either strong language, strong violence, or perverse sexual themes (a sign of a filmmaker's low confidence in his/her own material), and I have issues with stories that go from filth to filth to filth, with no chance for the viewer to breath, and absolutely no hope in sight (a.k.a. propaganda). Everything you see in this film, or even worse, may be true. But good things happen in Iran (or any other place) also. This is agenda-driven movie-making.

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