http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjTkXGRhy9w
To say that I found this film beautiful would not be enough. Nor would it do justice to the layers with which the story is told. A very rare exploration of a middle aged man dealing with divorce, a daughter and a father suffering from Alzeimers, and a very human exploration at that. In the whole way divorce in Muslim cultures has been represented and understood, it has been the woman at the hands of a man and Shariah law.
Here is a rare and unique story of breakdown and the impossibility of dividing what we love and share.
The performances are brilliant beyond words and because I am doing a class on Actor/Director Improvisational Collaborations this semester, so much of the process of creating those performances was clearer. There were lines that just couldn't have been written and there were moments that had emerged out from developing backstories and subtext.
It is a pleasure to watch such a work of art and honesty.
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