Backlash as Iran hardliners label Oscar favourite a 'dirty picture'
The Guardian/ the Observer / Saeed Kamali Dehghan
05-Feb-2012 (one comment)

It has picked up award after award, including a Golden Globe last month for the best foreign language film and the Golden Bear at last year's Berlin film festival. And it has delighted ordinary Iranians grateful for some glory at a time when international tensions are rising and the country's regime is ever more isolated.

But not everyone in Tehran is happy that Asghar Farhadi's hugely successful work, A Separation, is now a racing certainty to win an Oscar for the best foreign film at this month's Academy Awards.

The backlash was apparent on state-run television recently when Masoud Ferasati, an Iranian writer whose views are close to those of the Islamic regime, said: "The image of our society that A Separation depicts is the dirty picture westerners are wishing for." Ferasati added that political motivations were behind the many awards for Iranian films in the past two decades, and said an Oscar for A Separation should not be welcomed by Iranians.

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by پندارنیک on Sun Feb 05, 2012 06:30 AM PST

Mr. Farasati can wish for a muffled North Korean style of the seventh art all his life, but it won't happen............as it didn't happen during the reign of the dictator Shah, and His filthy and utterly corrupt family..........

It's a beautiful movie whose apparent struggle for breaking loose from theocratic confines makes it even more beautiful................I have no regards for international awards whatsoever, and would've admired the cast regardless of their well-deserved Globe................... 


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