Reviews

Here come the Makhmalbafs. Are they geniuses or is it down to dad, asks Hannah McGill

Iranian House Style - Feature Article  
Sight & Sound April 2004

Samira Makhmalbaf's third feature At Five in the Afternoon confirms her...

Le Monde Newspaper
France
By: Agnes Devictor
 
We are acquainted with the director Moshen Makhmalbaf. His films, in particular The cyclist (1989), Salam Cinema (1995), A Moment Of Innocence (1996), Gabbeh (1996), and The Silence (1998), have...

The Guardian
11 Augest 2001
Geoffrey Macnab

Terrible things go on in Afghanistan - everyone knows it. So why is Mohsen Makhmalbaf one of the few film-makers to tackle the subject? Below, the director talks to Geoffrey Macnab; bottom, an extract from his...

Chicago Reader
April 6, 2001
by: Jonathan ROSENBAUM

The Day I Became a Woman
***
A must-see
 
Directed by Marzieh Meshkini
Written by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
With Fatemeh Cheragh Akhtar, Hassan...

The New York Times

March 24, 2001
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
 
The Day I Became A Woman (2000)
FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW; Outrun Fate? Not for Iranian Women

One of the Iranian cinema's gifts to the world has been to...

The Guardian
10 December 2000

By: Sheila Whitaker
 
"Dad kick-started Iran's film revolution. Now his daughter and wife are winning prizes worldwide. Sheila Whitaker reports on the magnificent Makhmalbafs"
 
Our story begins in...

Part of the Book: Salam Cinema (Films of Makhmalbaf Family)
Written by: KIM Ji-Seok
 
A Cinematic Gem:
The Worldview of A Moment of Innocence
A Moment of Innocence is the film...

Part of the Book: Salam Cinema (Films of Makhmalbaf Family)
Written by: KIM Ji-Seok
 
The Makhmalbaf Family : Opening New Doors
I had the great pleasure of meeting Mohsen makhmalbaf in person at...

Chicago Tribune
October 2000
 
The Day I became a Woman, Review
 
 Modest in appearance and manner, filmmaker Marziyeh Meshkini hardly presents the picture of a radical. "I am not a revolutionary," she says firmly.
But her...

Cinemaya
Year: 2000
By: Alissa Simon
 
At the Cannes Film Festival, Iranian auteur Mohsen
Makhmalbaf announced proudly, "Four years ago, I stopped making
films and started making filmmakers."  His daughter Samira was the...

The Telegraph
31 Aug 2000
By: Hugh Davies in Venice

The Venice Film Festival opened last night with the principal guests, Sharon Stone and Clint Eastwood, almost upstaged by a young woman from Iran.

Appearing on...

Cinema Weekly
Venice, 2000
By: Karimi
 
In a TV and Media interview with Samira Makhmalbaf and Marziyeh Meshkini alongside each question that was asked from them a question about Makhmalbaf Film House was asked as well. Samira explained...

Cannes Film Festival
2000

Samira Makhmalbaf, whom draw the attention of most of the people present in the Cannes festival toward herself, set foot in a city in the year 1998, which definitely has been a competition center for a vast group of great people active in...