Tag: Behnaz Jafari

Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness | Review

Killer Ratings: Bakhshi Brings Reality Television Gimmickry to Morbid, Potential Levels To err is human, to forgive divine---or so we’ve come to accept as a...

Ladies They Talk About: Panahi Explores Artistic Repression in 3 Faces (2018) | Blu-ray Review

Jafar Panahi won Best Screenplay at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival for 3 Faces, his fourth feature since being banned from filmmaking by the...

3 Faces | Review

Faces, Places: Panahi Provokes the Patriarchy in Quiet Hybrid Drama Now nearly half way through his twenty-year ban from filmmaking, (a damning sentence passed down...

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La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | Review

The Lost Daughter: Herzi Passes Up Potency in Standard...

Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.

Interview: Eivind Landsvik – Low Expectations | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

Exploring themes of mental health, emotional recovery, companionship, and...