As Simple as That

Put-upon protagonist Tanareh has a problem common to all classes of Iranian women, and indeed women worldwide: she’s suffering from a stressful routine so centered on husband, kids and home that she’s completely lost any sense of herself and fallen into a depression. Her self-absorbed husband is an engineer who’s so busy that he doesn’t bother to tell her that he’s changed the number of their joint bank account. Their two materialist-oriented children, a girl, 8, and a boy, 6, are hurtfully unappreciative of her efforts to cook, clean and coach them. The preparations for her neighbor’s wedding lead her, inevitably, to a reassessment of her life.

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Script: Reza Mir Karimi, Shadmehr Rastin

Cinematography: Mohammad Aladpoush

Editing: Reza Mir Karimi

Sound: Mehran Malakouti

Actors: Hengameh Ghaziani, Mehran Kashani, Nayereh Farahani, Haleh Homapour

Production: Soureh Cinema Organization

Producers: Reza Mir Karimi

Format: 35mm Color

Production Country: Iran

Production Year: 2008

Duration: 97

Contact: Soureh Cinema Organization, IranT. +98 21 8895 2059F. +98 21 8895 2057international@sourehcinema.comwww.sourehcinema.com

Reza Mir Karimi

He was born in Tehran in 1967 and graduated from Tehran University in Graphics. He began his filmmaking career by directing a number of short films, including For Him, A Rainy Day and The Rooster. The Child and the Soldier, his first feature film, gained him much attention at the Fajr, Montreal, Tokyo, Sao Paulo and Nante Film Festivals. His second feature, Under theMoonlight, won the Critics Award at the Cannes FF 2001. He has won many awards in film festivals around the world.