Golshifteh farahani interview
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They did not take part in the revolution – that was their parents' big thing – but they lived through the aftermath of the revolution, the disaster after the earthquake.
What were the consequences?
You have 86.23% of this article left to read. And here we are, meeting in Cannes, while the world is tearing itself apart."
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From 'Reading Lolita in Tehran'.
That’s what artists do; they are ahead of their time. In the backdrop, Amin, her troubled addict brother, played by Tahar Rahim, floats in and out of their lives. I’m stubborn and determined.”
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Farahani with Mélissa Boros in 'Alpha'. “The irony is that I was much more connected to the drama.
You realize how we are all brothers and sisters and we’re all one family.”
Farahani has just come off the set of Paris-based Afghan filmmaker Chabname Zariab’s Bells of Kabul (Les Clochettes de Kaboul).
My passport was taken. 'Every immigrant leaves a large part of themselves behind'
(Photo: Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)
Since that clash with Iran's authorities, Farahani has focused on building her career abroad.
Reconnecting with Farsi
Prior to Alpha, Farahani was on set with exiled compatriots Zar Amir Ebrahimi and Mina Kavani for Israeli director Eran Riklis’ Reading Lolita In Tehran, which is adapted from Iranian writer Azar Nafisi’s autobiographical bestselling book.
Farahani played the protagonist teacher who encourages her female students to read banned western literature in revolutionary Iran.
At some point, it’s the daughter who saves her. Working with her was one of the most amazing experiences we had. In a way, we’re all victims of what our parents couldn’t let go of. Interrogations, uncertainty, fear — it lasted months. I just had to show up, no questions asked.
“Every immigrant leaves a large part of themselves behind, whether it’s Iran or Somalia,” says the 43-year-old actress in an interview with Ynet during the Cannes Film Festival.
She grows up too fast, becomes an adult before her time, because the world around her is already in crisis. I didn’t even need to work on the dialogs, it was like I downloaded them just by looking at them,” she recounts.
Farahani is now open to doing other projects in Farsi, and dreams of a day when she will be able to return to Iran to work with the new generation of directors.
Having watched and supported Iran’s Woman Life Freedom protests, sparked by the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini in September 2022, from afar, the actress says she is in awe of young filmmakers who have defied the authorities to make feature films on their own terms.
“They’re making movies on iPhone that are incredible.
Saying 'no'. Perhaps after years of playing women in battle, it is time to laugh — not in dismissal, but in defiance. But the night of the award changed everything. It weighs heavily on my soul, and there is no going back. “We’re a generation of hypochondriacs,” she says. What’s happening today in Iran, just in terms of sociology, needs to be studied.