Hamoun

Type:
Feature Film

Director:
Dariush Mahrjui

Year:
1990

Time:
117 mins.

Language:
Farsi with English subtitles

"A pulsating and richly human story."
- Hollywood Reporter

"An extraordinary blend of comedy and despair, philosophical"
- New York Press

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Hamoun is a psychological comedy/drama about a bumbling Iranian intellectual, Hamid Hamoun. Trying and failing to complete a philosophical tract on love, Hamoun cannot seem to convince his wife Mashid, who is a successful artist, to love him either. Hamoun's refusal to accept reality, or grant Mashid a divorce, is both character study and metaphor for a condition of modern urban life in Iran.

In 1997, Hamoun was voted the best Iranian film ever made by a survey of Iranian film critics. (The Cow had previously held that honor.)