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SUMMARY:Tribute to Dariush Mehrjui: Leila
DESCRIPTION:In-person: Q&A with Maryam Mehrjui and Safa Mehrjui\, daughter 
 and son of Dariush Mehrjui.\n\n\nPlease note: registration does not 
 guarantee entry if the event reach capacity. Admission is granted on a 
 first-come\, first-served basis.\n\nPatrons who have registered will need 
 to obtain their free tickets at the box office\, where seating will be 
 assigned. Any seats remaining 15 minutes before showtime will be released 
 to standby patrons.\n\n\nWriter-director Dariush Mehrjui studied cinema and 
 philosophy at UCLA before returning to Iran in the late 1960s where his 
 second feature The Cow is credited with launching the Iranian New Wave. A 
 giant of Iran cinema for over five decades until his untimely\, tragic 
 death in 2023\, Mehrjui was a fierce critic of the Iranian regime and 
 fought government censorship throughout his career. In his films\, he 
 explored the psychological toll of fear\, ignorance and oppression on the 
 lives of individuals with grace\, insight and poetry. The Archive is 
 honored to present a two-evening tribute (June 28 and 29) to his life and 
 legacy featuring some of his greatest works.\n \n\nLeila\n\nIran\, 
 1997\n\nSoon after meeting at a joyful gathering of family and friends\, 
 Leila (Leila Hatami) and Reza (Ali Mosaffa) are happily married. When Leila 
 learns she can’t have children\, however\, that supportive network of 
 relations becomes an unrelenting force of social pressure that threatens to 
 drive them apart\, most forcefully articulated by Reza’s domineering 
 mother who insists Leila allow Reza to take a second wife. Hatami delivers 
 a devastating performance in Dariush Mehrjui’s unforgettable portrait of 
 a woman under emotional siege that film critic Amy Taubin called “the 
 most brilliant depiction of a marriage gone to hell that I’ve ever 
 seen.” \n\nDCP\, color\, in Persian with English subtitles\, 102 min. 
 Director: Dariush Mehrjui. Screenwriters: Mahnaz Ansarian\, Dariush 
 Mehrjui. With: Leila Hatami\, Ali Mosaffa\, Jamileh Sheikhi.\n\nJoin 
 Meeting: 
 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/iranian-cinema-the-siren-2023-tickets-1317641363789?aff=oddtdtcreator
LOCATION:Billy Wilder Theater\, UCLA Film & Television Archive
ORGANIZER;CN="Katy Nicholas":MAILTO:katynicholas13@gmail.com
CATEGORIES:Screening
CONTACT;CN="Katy Nicholas":MAILTO:katynicholas13@gmail.com
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