Parviz is 50 and does not fit in with social norms. Unmarried and unemployed, he has lived his whole life in his father’s house. Parviz has a comfortable life in the calm and respectable suburb at the heart of turbulent Tehran. He does the housekeeping and odd jobs for local inhabitants.
When his father decides to remarry, he throws Parviz out overnight. The same neighbours for whom Parviz had taken the children to school for years now look down on him. Then Parviz starts to realise that respect and acceptance do not have to emerge from a social position and there are other ways to make people accept you.
After his successful debut Rainy Seasons, in his second feature Majid Barzegar presents a sharp and powerful portrait of a man who does not comply with the norm, sketching the suppressed intolerance of an apparently harmonious community. With a beautiful role by Levon Haftvan as Parviz.
Film details
- Country of production
- Iran
- Year
- 2012
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2013
- Length
- 107"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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