Divorce Iranian Style

Para mí, este es un ejemplo muy bueno de una "mosca en la pared" documental, pero uno donde la ilusión esta a menudo interrumpida por mujeres que se dirigen a la cámara y los cineastas directamente. Al igual que Wiseman, Longinotto se ha puesto a sí misma en una posición en una institución donde las conversaciones grabadas pueden reflejar temas más amplios de la sociedad.

Tras la charla del Dr. Jean-Paul Colleyn ayer, aqui tenemos solo una alternativa a la entrevista formal, es sólo un pequeño paso para pensar en cómo se podría integrar esas conversaciones grabadas, y la validez relativa de la "información" que contienen, en sus documentales .

Disponible en la FNAC en venta por la web, con subtítulos en español, por 14,95€

A film by Kim Longinotto and Ziba Mir-Hosseini (anthropologist)

England, 1998, 80 minutes, Color, 16mm/DVD

Hilarious, tragic, stirring, this fly-on-the-wall look at several weeks in an Iranian divorce court provides a unique window into the intimate circumstances of Iranian women’s lives. Following Jamileh, whose husband beats her; Ziba, a 16-year-old trying to divorce her 38-year-old husband; and Maryam, who is desperately fighting to gain custody of her daughters, this deadpan chronicle showcases the strength, ingenuity, and guile with which they confront biased laws, a Kafaka-esque administrative system, and their husbands’ and families’ rage to gain divorces.

With the barest of commentary, acclaimed director Kim Longinotto turns her cameras on the court and lets it tell its own story. Dispelling images of Iran as a country of war, hostages, and “fatwas”, and Iranian women as passive victims of a terrible system, this film is a subtle, fascinating look at women’s lives in a country which is little known to most Americans. Directed by Kim Longinotto and Ziba Mir-Hosseini, author of MARRIAGE ON TRIAL: A STUDY OF ISLAMIC FAMILY LAW.

http://www.wmm.com/filmCatalog/pages/c454.shtml (January 2010)