Nose, Iranian Style

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Nose, Iranian Style
Directed by Mehrdad Oskouei
Written byMehrdad Oskouei
Produced byMehrdad Oskouei, Oskouei Film Production
CinematographyReza Teymouri
Edited byMaziar Miri, Babak Karimi
Music byAli Samadpour
Distributed bySheherazad Media International (SMI), Katayoon Shahabi
Release date
  • 20 January 2005 (2005-01-20)
Running time
52 min
CountryIran
LanguagePersian

Nose, Iranian Style is a 2005 Iranian documentary film directed by Mehrdad Oskouei. It is about nose jobs (rhinoplasty) in Iran, which statistically has the most of any country. [1] The documentary employs a semi-comedic tone, with the title referencing the earlier film Divorce, Iranian Style . [2] Nose, Iranian Style relates the trend to politics, with it and the 2007 documentary Tehran: 11 pm connecting it to the importance of appearance, given the taboo of men and women directly and socially interacting. [3] However, Oskouei said the film was truly a critique of excessive consumerism. [4]

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Variety critic Deborah Young positively reviewed Nose, Iranian Style as "A surprising, compulsively watchable documentary." [1] It became Oskouei's most famous film internationally. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 Young, Deborah (12 June 2006). "Review: 'Nose Iranian Style'". Variety . Retrieved 7 May 2017.
  2. A. Jafar; E. Casanova (10 December 2013). Global Beauty, Local Bodies. Springer. ISBN   978-1137365347.
  3. Naficy, Hamid (2012). A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 4: The Globalizing Era, 1984–2010. Durham and London: Duke University Press. p. 109. ISBN   978-0822348788.
  4. 1 2 Yong, William (6 May 2011). "An Iranian Filmmaker Tiptoes Around the Censors to Explore Risky Subjects". The New York Times . Retrieved 7 May 2017.