{"id":608892,"date":"2024-02-16T18:34:13","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T15:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-a-sweet-iranian-romcom-until-it-crumbles\/"},"modified":"2024-02-16T18:34:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T15:34:13","slug":"watch-a-sweet-iranian-romcom-until-it-crumbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-sweet-iranian-romcom-until-it-crumbles\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch A Sweet Iranian RomCom Until It Crumbles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a30ce9f39496\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a30ce9f39496\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-sweet-iranian-romcom-until-it-crumbles\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Sweet_Iranian_RomCom_Until_It_Crumbles%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online A Sweet Iranian RomCom Until It Crumbles&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-sweet-iranian-romcom-until-it-crumbles\/#%E2%80%9CA_Sweet_Iranian_RomCom_Until_It_Crumbles%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;A Sweet Iranian RomCom Until It Crumbles&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Sweet_Iranian_RomCom_Until_It_Crumbles%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online A Sweet Iranian RomCom Until It Crumbles&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CA_Sweet_Iranian_RomCom_Until_It_Crumbles%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;A Sweet Iranian RomCom Until It Crumbles&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    How late is too late? It\u2019s a question that besets Mahin (Lily Farhadpour) a 70-year-old retired nurse who sleeps late, whose late husband is late by 30 years, and who is beginning to wonder if her loneliness might become untenable as late-life gets later still. But the question could also be asked of \u201cMy Favourite Cake\u201d itself, which after leaning into Farhadpour\u2019s ample charisma and the lovely, whimsical chemistry she strikes up with co-star Esmail Mehrabi, takes a strangely bitter turn in its home stretch, like a spongy confection whose dangerously high sucrose levels you are only just getting used to, when an unwelcome bit of grit chips a tooth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The film\u2019s writer-directors, Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha, are returning to the Berlin Competition after their \u201cBallad of a White Cow\u201d played to quite some acclaim here in 2021. Returning, that is, in spirit but not in person, as the Iranian authorities have banned them from <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>ling and instigated court proceedings against the film, for, among other things, its depiction of a Mahin without her hijab, as well as the scenes of her defying the morality police, and dancing and drinking wine with a man to whom she is not married. Given that real-world context (a lot of the film had to be shot in secret) it is perhaps not surprising that Moghaddam and Sanaeeha might feel the need to remind audiences of the harsh realities of life for women under the nation\u2019s increasingly repressive regime. It\u2019s less clear whether structuring the film right up to that point as a gently absurdist, tipsy romance between two of the nicest unmarried septuagenarians in Tehran, provides the right framework from which to deliver such a sober message.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Mahin, when we meet her, is preparing for one of her increasingly rare get-togethers with her girlfriends. Cinematographer Mohammad Haddadi\u2019s tasteful, hospitable images complement Mahin\u2019s tasteful, hospitable home as she and her friends gather around her dining table \u2013 which is laden with food and fresh fruit \u2014 and gossip like teenagers. Or not quite: while some chatter about the husbands they\u2019ve outlived and others relate slightly scandalous stories of picking up new boyfriends, one energetically hypochondriac friend insists they all watch the DVD of her colonoscopy. Washing up alone later, having had a quick Facetime with her daughter who lives abroad, you can sense how empty and quiet Mahin\u2019s neatly furnished little home feels without their bawdy company.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Perhaps spurred on by her friends\u2019 stories, Mahin resolves to try to meet a man, a decision which would not raise many eyebrows anywhere else, but in Tehran is tantamount to a radical act. First at the bakery, then at the local park and finally at a pensioners\u2019 restaurant, Mahin embarks on an extremely genteel form of cruising, which is beautifully played by Farhadpour, allowing the character\u2019s sense of mischief and self-aware daring to peek through her natural, and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a>ly mandated, reserve. And so when almost the first eligible candidate she talks to \u2014 taxi driver Faramarz (Mehrabi) whom she spots at the restaurant and by chances hears is unmarried \u2014 turns out to be a pretty much her perfect match, the wish-fulfillment fantasy aspect of this unlikely encounter doesn\u2019t even seem too contrived. There can be few characters drawn to be so lovably deserving of having their wishes fulfilled.\u00a0Their night together \u2014 a hall-of-famer first date if ever there was one \u2014 progresses with comical rapidity from the getting-to-know-you awkwardness to professions of love to plans for the next day and that day after and all the days after that. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    What it lacks in edge, the film certainly makes up for in the quality of its performances and watching Farhadpour and Mehrabi mutually glow off each other is a pleasure that it feels almost cruel to have so abruptly denied. But that final twist should have h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ened a lot earlier if the movie were making a bid for being a social thriller, or a lot later if it was meant as a more realistic, grounded drama, or not at all if it was designed to remain in the register of warmhearted rom-com. As it is, that solar-plexus kicker  seems, narratively, to do to Mahin what the directors are so critical of their own society doing to women of her age and outlook: punishing her for daring to pursue a dream of happiness in a society where even if a woman may have her cake \u2013 in this case, a delicious looking orange-blossom sponge \u2014\u00a0 she will never get to eat it too.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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