Women without Men

Four women cope with the turbulent anti-Mossadeq coup in 1953. The film cuts between a Tehran teeming with demonstrators and a lush, mysterious garden where the women gather.

"Heavy with symbolism and beautifully composed" Philip French

"Beautifully shot , wonderfully etheral" The Times

"A quietly tremendous fim which ensnares the both the heart and mind" Peter Bradshaw The Guardian.

Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CGxQlcrlYw

"The 53 year old Iranian artist Shirin Nesat has spent most of her life in exile. Her first feature-length film, based on a novel in the magic-realist mode, brings together four women in the summer of 1953, against the background of the British-backed, CIA-orchestrated military coup that brought down Mohammed Mossadegh's democratically elected government and ultimately led to the present situation in Iran.

They are the discontented 59 year old wife of a rightwing general, a prostitute in flight from a brothel, a complaint woman only too eager to wear the chador and marry, and a liberal, politically concnerned 30 year old whose devout Muslim brother is trying to force her into marriage. This last character is a focal figure. After committing suicide, she is at once a ghostly presence and an active particpant in the left wing opposition. "

Philip French The Observer.