“THE MAY LADY” (Banoo-Ye Ordibehesht)

SYNOPSIS:  Protagonist of this films is Frough, a 42-year-old female Iranian documentary-maker. She is successful in her work, but faces problems in her private life. She is divorced and thinking about starting a new relationship. But her teenage son Mani regards himself as the man about the house. This results in a covert war of nerves between mother and son. In the meantime Frough’s latest commission is to make a documentary on “the ideal mother”. She serrounds herself with videotapes on which women talk about the social problems they experience, such as the painful consequences of the war with Iraq. The differences with Frough’s feelings become painfully apparent.

Director’s View:  “The film’s simple narrative, places the main characters in different situations, encounters, human relations and beliefs, presenting close-up images of their reactions which are repeated in more detached forms in the documentary sections. To graft documentary images with a subdued dramatic structure was stylistic device which I had long wanted to employ, and The May Lady provided that opportunity.”

Iranian Film Society Presents  “BANOO-YE ORDIBEHESHT” a film by Rakhshan Bani-Etemad

Minoo Farshchi, Mani Kasraian, Golab Adineh, Atefe Razavi, Baran Kosari
Screenplay: Rakhshan Bani-Etemad Dir. Photography: Hossein Jafariani Music: Ahmad Pezhman Editing: Masumeh Shahnazari, Mostafa Kharghe Poosh Set Designer: Amir Esbati Sound: Parviz Abnar Producer: Alireza Raissisan, Jahangir Kosari Director: Rakhshan Bani-Etemad