No one better personifies Iranian cinema today than Mohsen Makhmalbaf, a filmmaker whose life and career have been shaped—indeed defined—by the 1979 Islamic revolution and the complex forces surrounding it. Vividly and at times almost pitilessly, ...
No one better personifies Iranian cinema today than Mohsen Makhmalbaf, a filmmaker whose life and career have been shaped—indeed defined—by the 1979 Islamic revolution and the complex forces surrounding it. Vividly and at times almost pitilessly, his films mirror Iranian culture in the years leading up to the revolution and following it. From the start, Makhmalbaf has explored the relationship between the individual and a larger social and political environment. As a result, his work serves as an extended commentary on the history of the Iranian state and its people. But if Makhmalbaf’s films are at times polemic, he nonetheless brings an artist’s sensibility to central issues of the human condition: God, love, regret, suffering, and injustice.
In The Films of Makhmalbaf Eric Egan examines the close and volatile relationship between a highly popular art form and the politics of power in Iranian society. Through a critical analysis of Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s films, the book traces the development of Iran’s national cinema both before and under the Islamic Republic. An artist whose work is provocative and never far from controversy, Makhmalbaf’s films have always been reflexive meditations on the nature of cinema and art within a society. As Iranian society has changed so his films have progressed, from ardently advocating the declared ideals of the Islamic regime to criticizing the failures of the revolution and examining difficult topics, all the while elucidating the social and political role of art and the artist.
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