“THE PEAR TREE” (Derakht-e Golabi)

SYNOPSIS:  As a renowned author, Mahmoud feels pressure to compose his next great novel, but he is suffering from writer’s block. He harkens backto a happier time when he was a shy, awkward 11-year-old on his family’lush estate in Tehran.
He recalls his 14-year-old cousin, a tomboy who is nonetheless a ravishing beauty. She revels in the power that she has over him.
That adolescent girl of long ago (or the memory of her)becomes the muse that inspires him.

Director:  Dariush Mehrjui

The film opens in a dark and drab contemporary setting but comes alive with light and color when Mahmoud remembers his childhood from the late 1940s—a time of
respite for Iran before the political crises of the 1950s.
Controversial filmmaker Dariush Mehrjui (The Cow; Santouri) offers a haunting, autobiographical account of childhood that reminds us all of the power of memory.

“. . . . a Proustian meditation on past love, politics, and the nature of being…..”
– VILLAGE VOICE
“A lush, golden evocation of first love and temps perdu . . . .”
–VARIETY 

Nima Pictures & Iranian Film Society Presents An Mehrfaraz Film Production ” T H E P E A R  T R E E ” a film by Dariush Mehrjui

Homayoun Ershadi, Golshifteh Farahani and Mohammad Reza Shahbani- Nouri
Screenplay: Dariush Mehrjui and Goli Tarraghi Photography:Mahmoud Kalari Director of Editing: Mostafa Kherqepoosh Producer: Dariush Mehrjui & Faramarz Farazmand Directed by: Dariush Mehrjui