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SUMMARY:Tribute to Dariush Mehrjui: Hamoon / The Pear Tree
DESCRIPTION:In-person: Introduction by 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\nHamoon\n\nIran\, 
 1990\n\n“Why did it go wrong? How did it start?” So ruminates a bitter 
 Hamoon (Khosro Shakibai) after his wife (Bita Farahi) demands a divorce\, 
 but the questions about his marriage take on ever stronger existential 
 consequences. A middle manager at a trading company\, the middle-aged 
 Hamoon aspires to the intellectual life (his wife is a celebrated abstract 
 painter) but his struggle to complete a philosophy thesis only compounds 
 his sense of anger and resentment. Director and co-writer Dariush Mehrjui 
 shakes up his acute study of a marriage and a life on the rocks with 
 unreliable flashbacks and surreal dream sequences that draw us inexorably 
 deeper in Hamoon’s collapsing psychology. \n\nDCP\, color\, in Persian 
 with English subtitles\, 120 min. Director: Dariush Mehrjui. Screenwriters: 
 Dariush Mehrjui\, Haroon Yashayayi. With: Khosro Shakibai\, Bita Farahi\, 
 Ezzatolah Entezami.\n \n\nThe Pear Tree\n\nIran\, 1998\n\nAn intellectual 
 author struggling with writer’s block\, Mahmoud (Homayoun Ershadi) 
 retreats to the country villa where he grew up only to be confronted by a 
 prized pear tree that refuses to bear fruit and aching memories of his 
 first love\, played by a radiant Golshifteh Farahani making her feature 
 film debut. In Dariush Mehrjui’s masterpiece of middle-aged doubt\, the 
 personal and the political steep in longing and regret while almost every 
 shot comes suffused in golden\, autumnal light captured through the lens of 
 cinematographer Mahmoud Kalari.\n\nDCP\, color\, in Persian with English 
 subtitles\, 95 min. Director: Dariush Mehrjui. Screenwriters: Dariush 
 Mehrjui\, Goli Taraghi. With: Homayoun Ershadi\, Golshifteh 
 Farahani.\n\nJoin Meeting: 
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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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URL:https://calendar.library.ucla.edu/event/14569708
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