Nose, Iranian Style
| Nose, Iranian Style | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Mehrdad Oskouei |
| Produced by | Mehrdad Oskouei, Oskouei Film Production |
| Written by | Mehrdad Oskouei |
| Music by | Ali Samadpour |
| Cinematography | Reza Teymouri |
| Edited by | Maziar Miri, Babak Karimi |
| Distributed by | Sheherazad Media International(SMI),Katayoon Shahabi |
Release date |
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Running time | 52 min |
| Country | Iran |
| Language | Persian |
Nose, Iranian Style is a 2005 Iranian documentary film directed by Mehrdad Oskouei. It is about nose jobs (rhinoplasty) in Iran, which statistically has the most of any country.[1] The documentary employs a semi-comedic tone, with the title referencing the earlier film Divorce, Iranian Style.[2] Nose, Iranian Style relates the trend to politics, with it and the 2007 documentary Tehran: 11 pm connecting it to the importance of appearance, given the taboo of men and women directly and socially interacting.[3] However, Oskouei said the film was truly a critique of excessive consumerism.[4]
Variety critic Deborah Young positively reviewed Nose, Iranian Style as "A surprising, compulsively watchable documentary."[1] It became Oskouei's most famous film internationally.[4]
Festivals
- 18th Int'l Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA)(2005/ Netherlands)
Nomination Golden MovieSquad DOC U! Award
- Salaam DK – Multi cultural Film Festival (2006/Denmark)
- 2nd Ukrainian Int’l Documentary Film Festival “Contact” (2006/ Ukraine)
- 3rd EBS Int’l Documentary Film Festival(2006/Seoul,Korea)
- Oslo Documentary Film Festival (5 – 15 Oct 2006/ Norway)
- 5th Tek Film Festival (2006/ Italy)
- Sixth Biennial of Iranian Studies in Iran Heritage (2006/ London,UK)
- 5th Int’l Documentary & Short Films Festival(2006/Prizren,Kozova)
- 1th Irans Film Festival(2006/Utrecht,Netherland)
- Rio de Janeiro Int'l Film Festival (2006 / Rio,Brazil)
- 9th Int’l 1001 documentary Film Festival(2006/Istanbul,Turkey)
- Film From the South (2006/ Norway)
- Museum of Fine Arts US (2006/ USA)
- Jakarta Int’l Film Festival (2006/ Indonesia)
- UCLA Film & Television Archive (2007/Los Angeles, USA)
- Aljazeera Int'l Film Festival (2007/ Aljazzera,Qatar)
- Syracuse Int'l Film Festival (2007/ USA)
- Visual Representations of Iran.(2008/St.Andrews,Scotland)
- Berlins Cinema Babylon (2008/ Germany)
- Faito Documentary Film Festival (2008/ Italy)
- Belmont World Film (2009/ USA)
- 6th Planet Documentary Review Film Festival(2009/ Poland)
- “Retrospective of Mehrdad Oskouei”,s films, Images Cinema (2011/Williams town,USA)
- “Retrospective of Mehrdad Oskouei”, DAS IRANISCHE WIEN, Filmarchiv Austria(2012/Vienna.Austria)
References
- 1 2 Young, Deborah (12 June 2006). "Review: ‘Nose Iranian Style’". Variety. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
- ↑ A. Jafar; E. Casanova (10 December 2013). Global Beauty, Local Bodies. Springer. ISBN 113736534X.
- ↑ Naficy, Hamid (2012). A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 4: The Globalizing Era, 1984–2010. Durham and London: Duke University Press. p. 109. ISBN 0822348780.
- 1 2 Yong, William (6 May 2011). "An Iranian Filmmaker Tiptoes Around the Censors to Explore Risky Subjects". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 May 2017.