No Land’s Song
Written by Ayat Najafi
Directed by Ayat Najafi
Germany, France, Iran, 2014
Before 1979, Iran had a history of iconic female singers. Qamar al-Molouk Vaziri was in 1924 the first woman to sing in front of a male audience and still to “retain her good reputation”. It was a time when “women wore burkas and men were on opium”, sighs one of the protagonists of the documentary from the Iranian Ayat Najafi. Singers such as Delkash and Googoosh, as well as Sayeh Sodeyfi, performing in the film, were widely listened to, but have since then been made illegal. After the revolution, female solo-singing in public was banned on the grounds of »exceeding a certain vocal range« and »sexually arousing men in the audience«, and thereby breaking the rule of decency and of not deviating from their normal condition.
Premiering at the Montréal World Film Festival last August, Ayat Najafi...
Written by Ayat Najafi
Directed by Ayat Najafi
Germany, France, Iran, 2014
Before 1979, Iran had a history of iconic female singers. Qamar al-Molouk Vaziri was in 1924 the first woman to sing in front of a male audience and still to “retain her good reputation”. It was a time when “women wore burkas and men were on opium”, sighs one of the protagonists of the documentary from the Iranian Ayat Najafi. Singers such as Delkash and Googoosh, as well as Sayeh Sodeyfi, performing in the film, were widely listened to, but have since then been made illegal. After the revolution, female solo-singing in public was banned on the grounds of »exceeding a certain vocal range« and »sexually arousing men in the audience«, and thereby breaking the rule of decency and of not deviating from their normal condition.
Premiering at the Montréal World Film Festival last August, Ayat Najafi...
- 5/15/2015
- by Tina Poglajen
- SoundOnSight
Time to add a little French flavor to your Friday, or should we say freedom flavor? Man, that whole switch French with freedom thing was dumb, wasn't it? It didn't even make any sense! Then again neither did the then administration at the helm so I guess in the end it all balances out. Where were we? Oh yeah ...
Jean Paul Civeyrac's Young Girls in Black, starring Elise Lhomeau, Lea Tissier, and Elise Caron, is playing right now in France; and we've got a look at the rather tame trailer to give you a sense of the flick's goings-ons. Sadly there are no subbys available at this time so if you don't speak French, you may not be as appreciative of the following snippet!
The flick takes place in a provincial town where two seventeen-year-old girls from humble backgrounds, Noémie and Priscilla, feel the same amount of disgust for the world and its violence.
Jean Paul Civeyrac's Young Girls in Black, starring Elise Lhomeau, Lea Tissier, and Elise Caron, is playing right now in France; and we've got a look at the rather tame trailer to give you a sense of the flick's goings-ons. Sadly there are no subbys available at this time so if you don't speak French, you may not be as appreciative of the following snippet!
The flick takes place in a provincial town where two seventeen-year-old girls from humble backgrounds, Noémie and Priscilla, feel the same amount of disgust for the world and its violence.
- 10/8/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Earlier in the year we posted some promising clips from Jean-Paul Civeyrac’s Cannes selection Girls in Black (Des Filles en noir). The good girls gone bad drama stars Elise Caron and Elise Lhomeau as Noémie and Priscilla, “two 17-year-old girls from modest backgrounds, that harbour the same despair, the same disgust at the world and the same violence. These girls are a cause of concern to close relations and everyone around them, as they’re perhaps capable of anything.”
The clips we originally posted showed the girls dealing with getting in trouble but little of what earned them their brushes with authority but the trailer shines a little light, showing the girls in full vandalism mode and suggesting that there might be more lurking in the shadows.
Trailer after the break.
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The clips we originally posted showed the girls dealing with getting in trouble but little of what earned them their brushes with authority but the trailer shines a little light, showing the girls in full vandalism mode and suggesting that there might be more lurking in the shadows.
Trailer after the break.
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- 10/8/2010
- QuietEarth.us
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