Wordiezett So much average

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

monagz-500-471986 Wow, I was about to recommend this film to a friend, and wanted to check the name of the director, and was thoroughly disappointed with the ratings this film received on IMDb. I have watched this movie twice. I wrote a lengthy plot summary of it on Wikipedia (which contains spoilers), which I think still requires shortening. I believe that any poor ratings or reviews are due to misunderstanding of the film or lack of appreciation for this type of film. If you are not interested in the types of issues the director is addressing, don't watch it. But don't tell everyone else that it's horrible and not worth their time. I beg to differ. As an Iranian-Canadian woman who has some understanding of the issues Iranian women have faced and still face, this film resonated with me. I would highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in women's issues in Iran. There is a lot of b.s. about these things, but this film seems to present the issues realistically (although I can't know for sure because I am no expert in history). Secondly, this film is visually stunning, and I also highly recommend it as a piece of art. Anyone looking to see a film that is different and special should see it. It is highly allegorical in nature, as some other reviewers have mentioned. I also have to bring up the comment as to the "misleading" nature of the title... obviously it is not meant to be taken literally. The director is trying to show the lives of women, and perhaps there is the suggestion of what they would be like without men, in a world more in-tune with the well-being and aspirations of women (as in the garden).

Sindre Kaspersen Iranian visual artist Shirin Neshat's first narrative feature which she co-wrote with writer Steven Henry Madoff and Iranian-American screenwriter, producer and director Shoja Azari who also worked as co-director on the film, is based on a short novel by Iranian author Shahrnush Parsipur. It premiered In competition at the 66th Venice International Film Festival in 2009, was screened in the Special Presentations section at the 34th Toronto International Film Festival in 2009 and is a Germany-Austria-France co-production which was shot on location in Casablanca, Morocco and produced by producers Philippe Bober, Martin Gschlacht and Susanne Marian. It tells the story about a middle-aged singer named Fakhri who lives in an emotionless marriage, a prostitute named Zarin whom is troubled by her customers changing faces, a young woman named Faezeh who loses her dreams of marriage and her a woman named Munis who strongly objects to her brothers rules during a summer in Theran, Iran 1953.In 1990, Iranian author Shahrnush Parsipur wrote the magic-realist novel "Women without Men", was arrested during the release of the book and pressured by the Iranian government who banned the book in the mid-1990s and her from continuing to write the way she did. Shirin Neshat's adaptation of a story that entwines the lives of four women is set against the backdrop of the Iranian coup d'état in 1953 where the democratically elected prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh (1882-1967) was overthrown by the British secret intelligence service MI6 and the United States central intelligence agency CIA. This character-driven and narrative-driven feature film debut which is narrated from multiple viewpoints with a fragmented narrative structure, which combines facts and fiction and which is notable for it's adventurous and colorful milieu depictions, sterling production design and costume design, evocatively and unsentimentally depicts the suppression of women in a sex segregated society and a nations protest against an historic governmental change.Exiled Shirin Neshat who started her artistic work as a photographer is an aesthetic, allegoric and contrasting art film where the realistic and the surreal converges. Her vision of a mid-19th century Iran is emphasized by the symbolic and prominent cinematography by cinematographer Martin Gschlacht and her archetype style of filmmaking is characterized by quiet camera movements, varied atmospheres, distinct female portraits, remote recordings and long takes without dialog. With this profoundly moving directorial debut which contains one of the most brutally expressive though cinematically masterful scenes in modern cinema history and which gained, among other awards, the Silver Lion for Best Director at the 66th Venice Film Festival in 2009, individualistic filmmaker Shirin Neshat who immigrated to the United States at the age of seventeen has hopefully reinforced the opportunities for future Iranian filmmakers who are limited by the fundamentalist Islamic regime. A political character piece and a social comment that leaves loud echoes.

alexanderjosefina bad movies are just bad,cause they are nit done well, have no scripts, or terrible actors, lighting is wrong and above all director is just far off the line of what movie making is all about. this terribly bad film has it all in it. and all that shows how invaluable, stupid, and worthlessness all world festivals are all together to get all these stupid films merits and awards. man i was almost wet in my pants as it went on every 10 minutes. bad movie from a good artist, but hell who said all artists should make films. this one is out of pure complexions from an artist who wants to be taken seriously as an director. sorry girl, you have miles to go to get there . go back to your art

AfroPixFlix More of a visual impressionist than storyteller, Shirin Neshat uses the thread of magic-realism to weave together vignettes of five besieged Iranian women. The film beautifully depicts the early fifties era in Iran, during the Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi coup and rebellion against American-British usurpation. Men fare badly in this feature, with maybe one silent gardener playing a benign male role. Neshat has a gifted eye, so check out the extra features for her detail-rich explanations of film nuancing. AfroPixFlix finds 8 fig-forks for this film-festival feature.Women Without Men (Zanan-e bedun-e mardan) 2009; 91 mins Directors: Shirin Neshat, Shoja Azari Writers: Shoja Azari, Shirin Neshat