Ultimately, The Hidden Half is shopworn feminist soap opera, enacted in a political echo chamber.
The Hidden Half(نيمه پنهان)
Iran · 2001
1h 43m
Director Tahmine Milani
Starring Niki Karimi, Mohammad Nikbin, Atila Pesyani, Akbar Moazezi
Genre Drama
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An official is sent from his home in Tehran to hear the final appeal of a woman sentenced to death, a political prisoner. The official's wife of nearly 20 years, Fereshteh Samimi, writes him a letter to read when he reaches the hotel - the story of her student days during the revolution of 1978. We see the story in flashbacks as he reads: she leaves her province on scholarship, joins a Communist youth group, avoids arrest, and comes under the sway of a suave older man, Roozbeh Javid, a literary-magazine editor. As she tells her husband about the hidden half of her life, Fereshteh asks that he listen to the woman facing execution, a woman and therefore one of Iran's hidden half.
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New Times (L.A.) by David Ehrenstein
Out of prison, Milani is still not allowed to leave Iran. Whether she will ever get the chance to make another film there is doubtful, all the more reason not to miss this one.
The confused script makes this a tough film for audiences to dig into.
Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
Courageous but uneven The Hidden Half landed the director in jail.
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