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88 min | Iran | 35 mm
hubert bals fund
credits
PROD: Ali-Reza Raissian
SALES: IFDC
SCENARIO: Rakshan Bani-Etemad
CAMERA: Hossein Jafarian
EDITOR: Mostafa Kherghehpoosh, Masumeh Shahnazari
CAST: Minoo Farshchi, Mani Kasraian, Golab Adineh, Atefeh Razavi, Baran Kosari
screenings
03 wednesday 14:45 Luxor
05 friday 14:00 Lantaren 1
28 thursday 20:15 Venster 2
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The May Lady is the latest film by the most prominent female film-maker in Iran, Rakshan Bani-Etemad. The protagonist is Frough, a 42-year-old Iranian woman who directs documentaries. She is successful in her work, but faces problems in her private life. She is divorced and thinking about starting a new relationship, but her teenage son, Mani, regards himself as the man about the house. This results in a covert war of nerves between mother and son. In the meantime, her latest commission is to make a documentary about 'the ideal mother'. She surrounds herself with videotapes on which women talk about the social problems they are confronted with, such as the painful consequences of the war with Iraq. The differences with Frough's feelings become painfully apparent. The name of the protagonist refers to Frough Farrokhzad, the brave and talented poet who used her life and poetry toencourage women to defend their own lives. Variety journalist and connoisseur of Iranian film, Geoffrey Cheshire: 'Rakhshan Bani-Etemad has produced her most personal film in the haunting May Lady. While her method recalls the coolly distanced views of Godard, Akerman and Duras, it also emerges organically from her own background as a socially engaged documentarian.'
Rakshan Bani-Etemad
Rakshan Bani-Etemad (1954, Teheran) attended a directing course at the Teheran College of Dramatic Arts. She started her career as script-girl and assistant with Iranian TV. After several short documentaries, she made her d�but as feature-film maker in 1989 with Off Limits.
films
Off Limits (1989), Canary Yellow (1989), Foreign Exchange (1990), Nargess (1992), Report of 1993 (1994), Spring to Spring (1994), To Whom Are You Showing These Films (1994), The Blue Veiled (1995), The Last Visit of Ms. Iran Daftari (1996), Under the Skin of the City (1997)
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