“MOM’S GUEST” (Mehmane Maman)

SYNOPSIS:  A mother finds out that her nephew and his newlywed wife are coming for a visit. She gets worried about how their house and conditions will look to them and does her best for her guests… Yadollah, her husband has only bougth a watermelon. Yadollah is an extremely outgoing person and he loves talking about his memories and cinema. He starts talking about his experiences and memories. Worst of all, he insists that guests have dinner with them, but they have no ingredients to make a dinner. But all of their neighbors help them to prepare a colorful table with delicious foods. But this is not the end…

Director:  Dariush Mehrjui

Mom’s Guest’ is set against the backdrop of the Iraq-Iran war, and tells the dark yet funny story of Mrs Effat, who, when unable to feed her newly arrived nephew and his bride, turns to those in her building for help. After having been persuaded to bring food and join her impromptu picnic, one by one, the neighbours begin to reveal their struggles and hardships. This light and simultaneously moving story of camaraderie is sympathetically brought to life by Golab Adineh, Roya Alemi, and Amin Hayayee.

“News that a long-unseen nephew is about to pay a courtesy visit with his new bride sends histrionics-inclined Mrs. Effat (veteran actress Golab Adineh) a-kvetching. Convinced shame will rain down on their house if they don’t offer a welcoming spread well beyond their means, she first harries beleaguered, cinema-obsessed hubby (Hassan Poorshirazi), as well as their university student daughter Bahareh and extremely rambunctious young son Amir. Soon her sense of emergency envelopes nearly everyone in their immediate community of the struggling and disenfranchised, including the daft med-school student and aspiring pharmacist whom daughter Bahareh is sweet on; well-born druggie Yuseef (Parsa Piroozfar) and his pregnant wife; a crazy elderly lady obsessed with her pet chickens, and so on.”
—Variety

Iranian Film Society Presents “MEHMANE MAMAN” a film by Dariush Mehrjui

Cast: Golab Adineh, Parsa Pirouzfar, Amin Hayaie, Hassan Pourshirazi, Alireza Jafari

Producer: Dariush Mehrjui Production Company : Cima FilamMusic: Emad Bonakdar Dir.Photography: Touraj Mansouri Sound: Jahangir Mirshekari Editor: Mehdi Hosseinivand Screenplay: Housang Moradi Kermani,Vahideh Mohammadifar, Dariush Mehrjui Director: Dariush Mehrjui