I urge you to go see this film. I've been raving all weekend. The best film I've seen all year. I have never felt so seen, so moved, and so encaptured by a plot line and a cast. I cried tears of belonging and understanding. I softly hummed to the songs and dances of nostalgia. Maryam and her team so beautifully captured her family's story, and in doing so, illustrated the texture and depth of the Iranian and immigrant story in the US. The trailer only shows a sliver of the film -- there was so much depth and creativity in the storytelling. I don't want to reveal more, but go see The Persian Version, once with your girlfriends, once with your Iranian and non-Iranian partners, and once with your maman and mamanbozorg (half of the film is in Farsi). You'll get so much out of watching each time.
Review of The Persian Version
