Dedicated to Abbas Kiarostami, in whose Ten Mania Akbari starred two years earlier, Akbari’s 20 Fingers also tries weighing freedom for Iranian women as it scrapes against the implacable rock of male prerogatives and presumption. Here, also, the form is episodic; different couples, perhaps one couple, played by Akbari and Bijan Daneshmand—together, they produced the […]
Daily Archives: August 21, 2010
A dream of a light satirical, “screwball” comedy, My Man Godfrey opens with a sharp socioeconomic contrast; the camera pans across, in the same crowded neighborhood, skyrises bearing the film’s title and credits in neon lights and the city dump in the dead of night, the site of a Hooverville of the Great Depression’s homeless […]
Dennis Grunes 