Reading Lolita in Tehran does not know the boundaries: its actors are Iranian, its director Israel and shooting in Rome, Italy. For the glass of the Cavani that plays with Nasrin is the final evidence of that “The art is made to contact us“He’s also a movie.
Published in 2003 by Azar Nafis, Read Lolita in Tehran There is a novel that is known all over the world. Translated from 32 languages New York Times.
The story is inspired by the travel of its author, English professor Tehran University, at the beginning of the Iranian Revolution – explains its role by Golshifte Farhan on the screen. In protest against the regime and libertic laws, it decides to set up a question group where several women are accused of Western works accused of the dirt of the country’s morality.
His cinematic adaptation has signed Eran Ricklis, uniting Iranian actors with very different routes, but whose exile is a conventional feature. Political film and more relevant than ever, reading to Lolita Tiran emphasizes everyone’s struggle to maintain their freedom.
Separation: The film begins in 1979, the beginning of the Iranian Revolution, then continued until several decades until 2003, the year of publication of the book. Why, in your opinion, read Lolita in Tehran is even stronger in our current society?
Golshifth Farahani: Today, the leaders of this world are building more and more walls and building more citizens. Art and culture are the main targets because they unite and inspire people. They hope and remind us that we are only human beings. There is nothing that books are burning in totalitarian regimes. This is the strength of the film, such as reading Lolita in Tehran.
When you fight for women in Iran, you will fight for all women in the world.
The characters in the film are mostly women and you all share the exile. It is possible for you to return to Iran with a fine of sanctions and imprisonment. How did you live with this experience that you met yourself?
Glass Cavani: This is the first time we played together. Most of my scenes are with Golshiptesis, and I have to say that I often watched him when I was little in Tehran. As a child, he was already a star in Iran, so we’ve known each other for a long time. He was a friend with my big sister.
Playing with him was symbolic, because even if our paths were different, we were in the same situation with the same thirst for life. Here, we find ourselves in a film shot in the film that tells our fate. It was huge.
Often, in the fight against women’s rights, in Iran, as in France, we are mainly directed to citizens, but this battle also applies to men. If women’s rights are in danger, all rights, regardless of sex.
Golshifth Farahani: When you fight for women in Iran, you will fight for all women in the world, fight for any genre, for humanity, for justice, for equality. These are human values. This is not a geographical issue either. When Kvidi appeared, he did not choose the countries that intended to spread. Everyone was worried.
Glass Cavani: Especially after we come from a country where men are struggling for women. I remember that no one was talking about it during the women’s freedom movement. There were many men who were prisoners, killed, killed because they fought for women.
Eran Ricklis “Read Lolita in Tehran”.
There must be a sense of loneliness related to the exile …
Golshifth Farahani: I believe that all people live in them with loneliness. Only, exile strengthens this. Beauty, if I can say about these exiles, will be able to put this feeling with those who live.
We live in France, and it must be said that this country is one of those who did the most for Iranian women and Iran. I mean culturally. We are grateful for that. Many artists have to leave and this is France that gives visas to find another chance there, especially when their lives are in danger.
The story takes place in Iran, but the whole film was filmed in Rome, Italy.
Glass Cavani: Yes, because it is just forbidden to shoot in Iran, to play without a hanger, to tell the reality there. There is a notion of censorship that prevents artists from expressing themselves. The only films shot in Iran have been made with mysteries. This is a great risk. Many were caught and unable to finish their film.
The final credits are accompanied by a song “Bar”, Sherevin Hajipuri. This title became the anthem, during the rebellion of the citizens in 2022 against the Mula regime. The singer was first sentenced to three years and eight months in prison for “propaganda”. It was finally released a few months later.
Golshifth Farahani: The artist, Sherevin Hajipur, asked people to write on Twitter all the reasons they had forced them before the revolution. Then he took all the tweets to make it a song. When the Coldplay Group interpreted this title at their concert This was important because it had an international impact on the movement.
The history of Shervin Hajipour reflects Lolita’s reading Tehran. We are secretly encountered because literature drives us. Sherevin was put in prison because it is a threat to the regime. A diet that has so many weapons, plane, money, but they are afraid of a simple song.
Interview by Thomas Desroches in Paris in February 2024.
Read Lolita in Tehran, currently in cinema
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