Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Mohsen Makhmalbaf's The Nights of Zayandeh-Rood (1990) is showing July 5 - August 4 in most countries around the world, and July 12 - August 11, 2018 in the United States, as part of the series Mubi x Nang Present: In & Out.The story behind Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s The Nights of Zayandeh-Rood deserves a film of its own. The Iranian director’s portrait of a daughter and father before, during, and after the 1979 Revolution was butchered by the country’s censorship committee shortly after production ended in 1990. Enraged by the alleged counter-revolutionary message, authorities first chopped 25 of the original 100 minutes, slashing another 12 after The Nights premiered at the Fajr Film Festival to crowds so large people had to queue overnight to get a seat. Makhmalbaf was shunned as a traitor, threatened with death, arrested by the secret police and interrogated for hours. A mutilated...
- 7/19/2018
- MUBI
The great auteur’s controversial 1990 critique of Iranian society is a rich meditation on family life, the legacy of violence and lost love
A survivor now living in exile, Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Gabbeh, Kandahar) is one of Iran’s most important living auteurs, both literally and figuratively the father of a new generation of filmmakers, given he’s also the dad of Samira Makhmalbaf, Hana Makhmalbaf and Maysam Makhmalbaf.
This early feature, about an anthropology lecturer (Manuchehr Esmaili) and his daughter (Mojgan Naderi) living through the last years of the Shah, the revolution and its painful aftermath, was made in 1990 and shown publicly only once. However, the state censors objected to Makhmalbaf’s audacious critique of Iranian society, among other things, so they butchered the negative, cutting out 20 minutes of footage now thought to be lost for ever. In 2016, someone managed to salvage the surviving 63 minutes and smuggle it out of...
A survivor now living in exile, Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Gabbeh, Kandahar) is one of Iran’s most important living auteurs, both literally and figuratively the father of a new generation of filmmakers, given he’s also the dad of Samira Makhmalbaf, Hana Makhmalbaf and Maysam Makhmalbaf.
This early feature, about an anthropology lecturer (Manuchehr Esmaili) and his daughter (Mojgan Naderi) living through the last years of the Shah, the revolution and its painful aftermath, was made in 1990 and shown publicly only once. However, the state censors objected to Makhmalbaf’s audacious critique of Iranian society, among other things, so they butchered the negative, cutting out 20 minutes of footage now thought to be lost for ever. In 2016, someone managed to salvage the surviving 63 minutes and smuggle it out of...
- 3/2/2017
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
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