Leila Jamshidpour doesn’t meet expectations. She steamrolls them. As a lifelong rule-breaker, she’s accustomed to the disapproving stare of her Iranian mother. Their relationship is strained on ...
Writer-director Maryam Keshavarz’s lively sophomore feature “The Persian Version” is an energetic and enjoyable memoir of a film, if a bit busy. In telling her family’s story of immigrating from Iran ...
The never-ending conflict between young people coming to terms with adulthood and their older, more conservative parents is familiar in film, literature, and music. Add in a flare of color, a montage ...
To be an immigrant is to be a writer, according to Iranian-American director Maryam Keshavarz, because as immigrants “you write your own story, you decide what’s your narrative.” Her latest feature, ...
Arezou is a writer for Collider. She has a wide-ranging knowledge of movies and TV, which means she almost certainly will start quoting something mid-conversation. While she has always wanted to work ...
Though Iranian American filmmaker Maryam Keshavarz grew up in New York and New Jersey, she frequently returned to Iran. She spent summers, and also attended second grade there. Keshavarz remembers ...
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