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==Plot==
==Plot==
Hamid Hamoun who is an executive at a leading import-export firm lives with his wife Mahshid who is a budding artist in [[abstract painting]]. Mahshid hails from a rich family but marries the middle class Hamoun after falling for his intellectual tastes and forward views. After 7 years of marriage Mahshid who once was very much in love with Hamoun soon sees him as a constricting force against her desire to do something meaningful with her life. Hamoun who wishes to pursue a career as a writer while simultaneously preparing for his PhD thesis, occasionally takes out his frustration at his wife. Mahshid soon demands divorce from him. Hamoun is shocked to find out that his wife loves him no more. The story then depicts Hamoun's incapability to deal with the reality of losing his wife and living with his unfulfilled dreams. The subsequent scenes portray Hamoun's realisations coupled with dreamlike sequences resembling those from some of [[Fellini]]'s movies. Hamoun vigorously attempts to meet his teacher Ali, whom he greatly admires, but never does. He then gives his grandmother a visit the purpose of which is to get a rifle which his grandfather had left. Hamoun unsuccessfully attempts to kill his wife who is now leading a good life on her own. Driven to the brink of madness by helplessness, Hamoun tries suicide by drowning himself in the sea. Hamoun goes through a dream where all his acquaintances and relatives including his mother and wife consoles him and Hamoun finds out (in the dream) that all his problems have been solved, only to wake up in the boat after being rescued by Ali, his teacher.
Hamid Hamoun who is an executive at a leading import-export firm lives with his wife Mahshid who is a budding artist in [[abstract painting]]. Mahshid hails from a rich family but marries the middle class Hamoun after falling for his intellectual tastes and forward views. After 7 years of marriage Mahshid who once was very much in love with Hamoun soon sees him as a constricting force against her desire to do something meaningful with her life. Hamoun who wishes to pursue a career as a writer while simultaneously preparing for his PhD thesis, occasionally takes out his frustration at his wife. Mahshid soon demands divorce from him. Hamoun is shocked to find out that his wife loves him no more. The story then depicts Hamoun's incapability to deal with the reality of losing his wife and living with his unfulfilled dreams. The subsequent scenes portray Hamoun's realisations coupled with dreamlike sequences resembling those from some of [[Fellini]]'s movies. Hamoun vigorously attempts to meet his teacher Ali, whom he greatly admires, but never does. He then gives his grandmother a visit the purpose of which is to get a rifle which his grandfather had left. Hamoun unsuccessfully attempts to kill his wife who is now leading a good life on her own. Driven to the brink of madness by helplessness, Hamoun tries suicide by drowning himself in the sea. Hamoun goes through a dream where all his acquaintances and relatives including his mother and wife consoles him and Hamoun finds out (in the dream) that all his problems have been solved, only to wake up in the boat after being rescued by Ali, his teacher.

==Review==
Once voted the greatest Iranian film by that nation's critics, Dariush Mehrjui's 1990 drama about a disintegrating marriage gives equal measure to the husband's and wife's perspectives. The wife (Bita Farrahi), an artist whose offhand paintings sell out at her opening, wants to divorce her husband, but under Islamic law she needs his consent. The husband (Khosrow Shakibai), a pigheaded, self-destructive loser with philosophical pretensions, keeps insisting that he loves his wife (his unpredictability is appropriately mirrored in the chaotic traffic patterns of a chase scene). Mehrjui refuses to judge either of them, and despite the wife's visits to a psychiatrist he avoids trite explanations; by treating the couple's emotional states as irreducible facts, he makes his characters all the more powerful.<ref>[http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/hamoon/Film?oid=1054000 Hamoon Chicago Reader By Fred Camper]</ref>


==Reception==
==Reception==

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Hamoun
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Directed byDariush Mehrjui
Written byDariush Mehrjui
StarringKhosrow Shakibai
Bita Farahi
Ezzatollah Entezami
Release date
  • 1990 (1990)
Running time
122 min.
CountryIran
LanguagePersian

Hamoun (Template:Lang-fa, also Romanized as Hamoon, Hamun, Hāmoun, Hāmoon, and Hāmun) is a 1990 psychological drama movie directed by Dariush Mehrjui. The movie tells the story of a middle-class Iranian – Hamid Hamoun, played by Khosrow Shakibai – and his struggle after his femme fatal wife, Mahshid, played by Bita Farrahi, demands a divorce from him.

Plot

Hamid Hamoun who is an executive at a leading import-export firm lives with his wife Mahshid who is a budding artist in abstract painting. Mahshid hails from a rich family but marries the middle class Hamoun after falling for his intellectual tastes and forward views. After 7 years of marriage Mahshid who once was very much in love with Hamoun soon sees him as a constricting force against her desire to do something meaningful with her life. Hamoun who wishes to pursue a career as a writer while simultaneously preparing for his PhD thesis, occasionally takes out his frustration at his wife. Mahshid soon demands divorce from him. Hamoun is shocked to find out that his wife loves him no more. The story then depicts Hamoun's incapability to deal with the reality of losing his wife and living with his unfulfilled dreams. The subsequent scenes portray Hamoun's realisations coupled with dreamlike sequences resembling those from some of Fellini's movies. Hamoun vigorously attempts to meet his teacher Ali, whom he greatly admires, but never does. He then gives his grandmother a visit the purpose of which is to get a rifle which his grandfather had left. Hamoun unsuccessfully attempts to kill his wife who is now leading a good life on her own. Driven to the brink of madness by helplessness, Hamoun tries suicide by drowning himself in the sea. Hamoun goes through a dream where all his acquaintances and relatives including his mother and wife consoles him and Hamoun finds out (in the dream) that all his problems have been solved, only to wake up in the boat after being rescued by Ali, his teacher.

Review

Once voted the greatest Iranian film by that nation's critics, Dariush Mehrjui's 1990 drama about a disintegrating marriage gives equal measure to the husband's and wife's perspectives. The wife (Bita Farrahi), an artist whose offhand paintings sell out at her opening, wants to divorce her husband, but under Islamic law she needs his consent. The husband (Khosrow Shakibai), a pigheaded, self-destructive loser with philosophical pretensions, keeps insisting that he loves his wife (his unpredictability is appropriately mirrored in the chaotic traffic patterns of a chase scene). Mehrjui refuses to judge either of them, and despite the wife's visits to a psychiatrist he avoids trite explanations; by treating the couple's emotional states as irreducible facts, he makes his characters all the more powerful.[1]

Reception

Due to its dream like sequences and the treatment, Hamoun has often been described as having a Fellini touch.Spirituality & Practice Also the film has an undertone of comedy which is not usually found in Iranian movies. In 1997, Hamoun was voted the best Iranian film ever made by a survey of Iranian film critics.First Run Features The Cow by the same director had previously held that honor.

Awards

Cast

References

  1. ^ Hamoon Chicago Reader By Fred Camper
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