“Reading Lolita in Teheran”, interview with director Eran Riklis and Book author Azar Nafisi
Reading Lolita in Teheran by Eran Riklis, premiering at Rome Film Fest brings on the big screen the freedom and power of the book by Azar Nafisi
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“Reading Lolita in Teheran”, interview with actresses Goldshifteh Farahani and Mina Kavani
Goldshifteh Farahani : “We don’t have a home anymore but we are Iran, we left Iran but Iran never left us and will never leave us”
“Reading Lolita in Teheran”, based on the best selling book by Azar Nafisi, is premiering at the 19th Rome Film Festival.
The film, shot in Rome and directed by Israeli director Eran Riklis, gather together an Iranian-International cast guided by Goldshifteh Farahani and composed by Mina Cavani, Zar Amir, Bahar Beihaghi, Isabella Nefar, Haha Rahbari and Lara Wolf.
As it tells the intimate and real story of women in Iran, fighting and surviving the regime with literature and art, this film project was very important and life changing for the whole cast, especially the actresses involved.
Farahani with her fellow colleague Mina Kavani, reminds us: “We don’t have a home anymore but as it is also said in the film, we are Iran, we left Iran but Iran never left us and will never leave us”
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“Reading Lolita in Teheran”, interview with actresses Goldshifteh Farahani and Mina Kavani Chiara Nicoletti
Plot
Azar Nafisi, a former professor at Tehran University, secretly gathers seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden western classics. As fundamentalists seize control, the women remove their veils, speak about their intimate hopes, loves and disappointments, their femininity and their search for a place in an increasingly oppressive society. By reading Lolita in Tehran, they celebrate the liberating power of literature in revolutionary Iran and form their own future.
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