ROOSARY-E AABY (Blue Veiled)
CAST: Ezatolah Entezami and Fatemeh Motamedi
Seattle Art Museum (Downtown Seattle), 100 University Street (University and 1st)
Sunday, May 28 - - - Showtimes: 4:00 PM, 6:00 PM, and 8:00 PM
Tickets are $8 each
For more information please visit www.nimatv.com
The Blue-Veiled - - - A Film by Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
One of the first woman to make films after the revolution, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad has detected one of the different films of this year. Her background in documentary filmmaking has made marginal people the focal characters of her movies. Here, however, an unprecedented love affair makes this film even more non-conventional than her previous film, Nargess.
The story is about an elderly owner of a tomato farm and sauce factory who, after his wife's death falls in love with one of the workers of the factory endangering his relationship with his daughters and in-laws. While everybody in the big family persuade the old man to abandon the relationship with the poor girl, the old man makes his final choice of love.
In her first movie, Off the Limits, people living in a city's outskirts have trouble in having a thief sent behind bars. In her second film, Canary Yellow, a man whose car is stolen finds himself at once down and out, In Foreign Exchange, her third movie, an office worker turns to dealing in foreign exchange to make a fortune that turns out to be cursed. While in all those three films there was a bitter irony in the story line, her fourth film, Nargess was absolutely realistic. The film was a young man's choice between two different ways of life. In her latest film, however, the social backdrop is dominated by the love affair. The old man in fact neglects the social differences that scare his daughters.
Made two years after Nargess, The Blue-Veiled has an economical narrative style that looks more natural.
Speaking about her film and its characters, Bani-Etemad says, "None of the characters were imaginary. I knew them beforehand. I had met some of the real characters while working on my documentaries in the outskirts of Tehran. It was the story line that was formed around those characters."
Subject: "The Color of Paradise"
The Iranian movie "The Color of Paradise" by Majid Majidi will be shown for one week at the Seven Gables Theater until this Thursday, May 4.
For show times please call the Seven Gables Theater at (206) 632-8820.
The Seven Gables Theater is located at NE 50th and Roosevelt Way.
Shad Bashid. Bahador
