Film
Tehran Taboo
- Director
- Ali Soozandeh
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 96 mins
A rotoscope animation (y’know – as popularised by Richard Linklater with A Scanner Darkly and Waking Life) about sexual hypocrisy in Iran from Iranian-born German filmmaker Ali Soozandeh.
Subtle it ain’t, unlike Marjane Satrapi’s broadly comparable Persepolis, and some critics found its tome somewhat hectoring. But there’s no doubting the power of the three stories told here: a woman needs an operation to ‘restore’ her virginity after a one-night stand; an Islamic Revolutionary Court judge demands sexual favours from a prostitute in return for granting permission to divorce her junkie husband; and a young wife seeks to procure an abortion, which is punishable by death.
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