{"id":29826,"date":"2023-11-20T09:30:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T07:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/?p=29826"},"modified":"2023-11-20T09:30:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T07:30:41","slug":"clashing-cultures-and-gender-politics-in-the-persian-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/clashing-cultures-and-gender-politics-in-the-persian-version\/","title":{"rendered":"Clashing Cultures and Gender Politics in <em>The Persian Version<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Persian Version<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is available in limited US theatrical release and select VOD.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bavand Karim<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Persian Version<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the third feature film from Iranian American director Maryam Keshavarz. The semi-autobiographical comedy about the director\u2019s upbringing and family won the audience award at this year\u2019s Sundance Film Festival. Keshavarz skillfully weaves a cross-cultural coming-of-age story that spans time and geography through the portraits of resilient women struggling through generational maternal trauma.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After lovesick lesbian Leila (Layla Mohammadi) becomes pregnant by her one-night stand Maximillian (Tom Byrne), the two strike up a reticent romance. In exploring Leila\u2019s predicament, we meet her conservative parents and eight brothers. To them, Leila\u2019s pregnancy is just another one of her scandals. As Leila determines to move forward by discovering the past, the film explores the shades of variation within Persian culture, its contradictions, and the values which lie at its heart. Most of all, the film celebrates the resilience and individualism of Iranian women across generations through Leila, her mother Shireen (Niousha Noor), and her grandmother (Bella Warda). Shireen\u2019s own story is explored through a flashback sequence in which she is portrayed by Kamand Shafieisabet, who gives a performance that will surely catapult the young actress into wider recognition.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-5fccb0a890595d35eac5d4c10fe5829d ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:600px; height:550px; max-height:550px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" title=\"THE PERSIAN VERSION | Official Trailer (2023)\" width=\"600\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PDrlpcv4vXE?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keshavarz successfully navigates the unique challenge of portraying a country she is unable to visit herself. Her 2011 erotic thriller, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Circumstance<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, about two Iranian women falling in love, caused Iranian officials to declare her an outlaw. The ban did not sway Keshavarz; She cast an international company of known and unknown actors who all reside outside of Iran and filmed in New Jersey, New York, and Mardin, Turkey to create a thoughtful exploration of inter-cultural gender identity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PDrlpcv4vXE&amp;ab_channel=SonyPicturesClassics\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-29927\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/the-persian-version-poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"586\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/the-persian-version-poster.jpg 396w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/the-persian-version-poster-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><\/a>Keshavarz\u2019s voice as an auteur is rooted in her expression of queer themes. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Persian Version<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> exhibits the four traditional hallmarks of queer cinema: irony, theatricality, aestheticism, and humor. The story balances constant irony through \u201cin-between-ness\u201d presented in terms of ethnicity, gender identity, and cross-cultural expression. The performances and production design exude the campy over-the-top theatricality long associated with the best queer films like <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hedwig<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rocky Horror Picture Show<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The fantastically stylized representations of 1980s aestheticism disengage the audience from traditional moral rules and expectations. And the story\u2019s use of humor as a coping mechanism when things get difficult is perhaps the most important message in the film \u2014 that beneath the pain and alienation experienced by marginalized communities, there remains irrepressible positivity and hope.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The director\u2019s modern cinematic influences are apparent. The film operates as an homage to the gender-bending in-between-ness of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hedwig and the Angry Inch<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, John Cameron Mitchell\u2019s virtuosic stage play that was adapted for cinema in 2001. Wes Anderson himself might be envious of the film\u2019s vibrant colors and Keshavarz\u2019s symmetrical mise-en-sc\u00e8ne. Martin Scorsese would surely approve of the way Keshavarz breaks the fourth wall during transitional montages by having her characters speak directly to the audience. Every element within <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Persian Version<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a pastiche of America\u2019s influence on Persian culture, right down to the cross-cultural restyling of Cyndi Lauper\u2019s classic hit, \u201cGirls Just Want to Have Fun.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Persian Version<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is an imperfect portrait of an imperfect family. The film leaves some of its characters undeveloped, and some of its threads untied. But it never fails to acknowledge the complexity of delicately balancing such meaningful and urgent issues, and it never strays from the theme that life\u2019s most meaningful moments are often not the most celebrated or memorable ones, but the ones in between.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bavand Karim reviews &#8220;The Persian Version,&#8221; a 2023 American comedy drama film directed and written by Maryam 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