The director’s new dramedy is a story of an Iranian American family with ties to New York City and Iran.
Layla Mohammadi as Leila, Niousha Noor as Shireen in “The Persian Version.” “Girls Just Want To Have Fun” into Iran on a trip from her home in New York City to visit relatives there in the land of her parents.
I was like, ‘Oh, I don’t know,’” she says. “I was kind of skirting the issue, and they kept stalking me. Then I said, ‘Well, I’ll write it if it can be a comedy.’ They’re like, ‘Great idea!’” “It’s time to show being American has many different faces,” she says. “I really want to tell an American story that showed our life here, and also our history where we come from, and there had never been such a film made.”
“It’s more than semi-autobiographical,” Keshavarz says, laughing, of the film that won both the Audience Award and Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival this year. “All of these things are true, I think they’re just in different orders. For Layla, the stand-in for Keshavarz, the bright colors of ’80s and ’90s sitcoms and music videos fill the screen. The film opens and closes with a Bollywood-esque dance number to “Girls Just Want To Have Fun” with the extended family in Iran.
Given how fraught the relationship is between the mother and daughter in the film, one wonders how Keshavarz’s own mother reacted when she saw their lives transposed to the screen.
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