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- Kevin Ward2. Juli 2025There is a significant amount of heart in this story, but unfortunately I don’t think director Maryam Keshavarz had enough heart to leave any of it on the editing room floor. Clearly it’s a very personal story of an Iranian-American film student (graduate maybe), Leila, that is always at odds with her mother. When Leila becomes pregnant she talks with her grandmother about their family history—how her parents immigrated to the United States and why. It’s here where she perhaps discovers that she and her mother aren’t so different after all. I recount all of that, because that’s what the focus of the movie should be about. However, there is so much more here that spans decades…Leila smuggling American cassette tapes to Iran as a very young girl, the scandal that sparks the move to the US, Leila’s mother becoming a real estate mogul, Leila’s marriage to her first wife (and divorce), Leila’s brother’s wedding, her seven other brothers, her father’s heart transplant, and Leila now being impregnated by a male friend. The narrative all kind of time jumps between decades filling in the details of Leila’s family history. Some of it is fun and certainly funny, but never felt like almost any of it was necessary. I did find the mother-daughter conflict aspect of the story moving, particularly the final resolution, really everything else felt just like it was there for window dressing, including the Girls Just Wanna Have Fun dance numbers. Even the scandal that Leila discover’s about her parents, doesn’t even really feel like it would lead to a revelation that she and her mother are more alike than not. Somewhat disappointed by this. The Persian Version seems like it shows a lot of promise but was narratively messy and unfocused.
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The Persian Version wurde am 5. Dezember 2023 veröffentlicht.
Regie in The Persian Version führte(n) Maryam Keshavarz.
The Persian Version hat eine Spielzeit von 1 Std., 48 Min..
The Persian Version wurde produziert von Maryam Keshavarz, Anne Carey, Luca Borghese, Peter Block, Ben Howe, Cory Neal.
Leila ist eine iranisch-amerikanische junge Frau, die versucht, ihre beiden so gegensätzlichen und verfeindeten Kulturen in Einklang zu bringen - was nicht immer ganz einfach ist. Dabei stellt sie auch die Etiketten in Frage, die Familie und die Gesellschaft ihr kurzerhand verpassen. Als die ganze Familie wegen einer Herztransplantation ihres Vaters in New York City zusammenkommt, bemüht sich Leila, ihr Beziehungsleben unterm Radar zu halten und ihr "richtiges" Leben von ihrem Familienleben zu trennen. Als ihr Geheimnis jedoch kurzerhand gelüftet wird, treten auch die deutlichen Parallelen zwischen Leila und ihrer Mutter Shireen zu Tage...
Die Hauptcharaktere in The Persian Version sind Leila (Layla Mohammadi), Shireen (Niousha Noor), Young Shireen (Kamand Shafieisabet).
The Persian Version ist bewertet mit 12.
The Persian Version ist eine Komödie, Drama, Liebesfilm Film.
The Persian Version hat eine Benutzerbewertung von 9.3 von 10.
The Persian Version erzielte Einnhamen von 534.000 $ an den Kinokassen.