As a renowned author, Mahmoud feels pressure to compose his next great novel, but he is suffering from writer’s block. He harkens back to a happier time when he was a shy, awkward 11-year-old on his family’s 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. AKA The Pear Tree.
Writers: Dariush Mehrjui, Goli Taraghi.
Stars: Homayoun Ershadi, Golshifteh Farahani, Mohammad Reza Shahbani Nouri, Nematollah Gorji.
Cinematographer: Mahmoud Kalari.
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RIP Dariush Mehrjui (1939-2023)
Hard to take this load of old toss seriously. The female lead is pretty but can not act. She poses and speaks. That is not acting. Half as long and less pretentious writing would possibly have saved it. But self indulgence is rife in the movie industry.
Thank you for featuring these beautiful and mostly neglected films by a master director. Bravo!
The symbolism is simplistic: the writer can’t write, the fruit tree doesn’t produce fruit. Film unfolds like a tone poem on mistakes made during the course of the writer’s life during the Iranian revolution and after; failing to reconnect with his childhood sweetheart. The fine acting is set against a mostly diegetic sound track but for excerpts from a Schubert sonata. Is being wholly immersed in the present the only effective response to past regrets, the director/writer asks? This lyrically paced film will appeal to the sensibility of readers of Proust.
Thank you…