The Hidden Half

The Hidden Half (2001)

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Made by Tahmineh Milani, one of Iran's most prominent woman directors, The Hidden Half stars Niki Karimi as Fereshteh, an upper middle-class housewife who was a campus radical during Iran's tumultuous cultural revolution in the early 1980s. When her husband, Atila Pesiani, a lawyer, is assigned to… More

Unrated, 1 hr. 48 min.
Directed By
Tahmineh Milani
Genres
Art House & International, Drama
In Theaters
Oct 5, 2001 Wide
On DVD
Oct 29, 2002

Critic Reviews

  • Marty Mapes, Movie Habit

    Iranian director Tamineh Milani was arrested and faced execution for making The Hidden Half

  • Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid

    It's clear that director Milani is more concerned with the emotion of the story than with its politics, which is as it should be. But the emotion often aims too high and resonates too loudly and too forced, like a 1950s Rock Hudson melodrama.

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