The Persian Version Sundance Film Festival Review: A Daughter Seeks To Understand Her Mother’s Unusual Behavior In Maryam Keshavarz New Dramedy Film
deadline.comThe Persian Version, directed and written by Maryam Keshvarz stars Layla Mohammadi, and Niousha Noor as a mother and daughter at odds with one another.
The Persian Version starts with Lelia (Layla Mohammadi) at a costume party in a self-made Burkini. This is where she meets Maximillian (Tom Byrne), a Broadway actor/singer dressed as Hedwig, and they have sex.
When she wakes up the next morning, she starts with expeditionary voice-over about her Persian upbringing, and her countries relationship (Iran), with the United States.
She details how she grew up in Brooklyn, but her parents are from Iran, and the country forbid everything with American influence, but on her childhood trips back to the country, she smuggled Cyndi Lauper’s audio cassette, (Cut to a young Lelia dancing with her mother and other family members to Girls Just Want To Have fun in Iran).
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