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Film · 2015
Nahid
ناهیدIn a Caspian coastal town, young divorcee Nahid retains custody of her son only under the condition set by her ex-husband that she never remarry. When she falls in love with an affluent man who proposes marriage, she enters into a secret temporary union, risking her parental rights as societal scrutiny mounts.
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Panahandeh crafts a complex portrait of a struggling thirty-year-old woman who became a mother too young. She wants her son to have every opportunity. But her solution is to send him to an expensive private school, which she can’t afford. She’s dangerously in debt. Meanwhile, her son refuses to apply himself to his school work, defeating the purpose of a privileged education. Too worn out to engage with him, she responds by berating and punishing him.
Alex Heeney on Seventh Row In the end, Nahid establishes itself as a touching work, allowing us to gain a deeper insight into Iranian society through the portrait of an emancipated woman fighting single-handedly against all odds to lead her life as she sees fit.
Marjorie Rivière on aVoir-aLire Ida Panahandeh’s accomplished debut feature Nahid marks her out as a welcome addition to the ranks of compassionate, social realist filmmakers that stretches from Vittorio De Sica to the Dardenne brothers. Nahid tells the story of a young woman thwarted in all her heart’s desires by a society in which everything conspires against her from the patriarchal legal system to the strict codes of acceptable behaviour.
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