The Apple (1998)
(Sib)
Country: IR/FR
Technical: col 85m
Director: Samirah Makhmalbaf
Cast: Massoumeh Naderi, Zahra Naderi, Ghorban Ali-Naderi
Synopsis:
Social workers respond when neighbours complain at a blind mother and her husband keeping their twelve year-old daughters locked up all their lives.
Review:
Shot by 18 year-old daughter of director Mohsen Makhmalbaf only days after the events described and using the actual protagonists as actors, this is a remarkable film in many ways. It is direct and naturalistic in its gaze, like other Iranian films (The Cow, The White Balloon), and uses the symbolism of the apple to suggest the double-edged freedom and consumerism of the daughters, once loosed on the world.
(Sib)
Country: IR/FR
Technical: col 85m
Director: Samirah Makhmalbaf
Cast: Massoumeh Naderi, Zahra Naderi, Ghorban Ali-Naderi
Synopsis:
Social workers respond when neighbours complain at a blind mother and her husband keeping their twelve year-old daughters locked up all their lives.
Review:
Shot by 18 year-old daughter of director Mohsen Makhmalbaf only days after the events described and using the actual protagonists as actors, this is a remarkable film in many ways. It is direct and naturalistic in its gaze, like other Iranian films (The Cow, The White Balloon), and uses the symbolism of the apple to suggest the double-edged freedom and consumerism of the daughters, once loosed on the world.
(Sib)
Country: IR/FR
Technical: col 85m
Director: Samirah Makhmalbaf
Cast: Massoumeh Naderi, Zahra Naderi, Ghorban Ali-Naderi
Synopsis:
Social workers respond when neighbours complain at a blind mother and her husband keeping their twelve year-old daughters locked up all their lives.
Review:
Shot by 18 year-old daughter of director Mohsen Makhmalbaf only days after the events described and using the actual protagonists as actors, this is a remarkable film in many ways. It is direct and naturalistic in its gaze, like other Iranian films (The Cow, The White Balloon), and uses the symbolism of the apple to suggest the double-edged freedom and consumerism of the daughters, once loosed on the world.