Baran Kosari Movies
- 2006
Crossroads (AKA Taghato, 2006), Iranian writer-director Abol Hasan Davoudi's ensemble drama of intersecting lives, examines the cat's cradle of aftereffects that follow a massive car crash. The story opens on Minou (Fatemeh Motamed Arya) a widowed Persian mother with a teenage son, who feels her control over her boy slipping away gradually as he spends increasing amounts of time with a wealthy and irresponsible male friend. One night, the two boys go joyriding in a car, and then - amid a fit of road rage - plow their vehicle into another, killing both a pregnant woman and a young girl who works as a puppeteer. Davoudi then examines the myriad of lives impacted by the accident, by crisscrossing several related stories. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
- Starring:
- Fatemeh Motamed Arya, Bahram Radan, (more)
- 2006
The uneasy relationship between a mother and daughter is made all the more turbulent by drug abuse in this downbeat drama from Iranian filmmakers Rakhshan Bani-Etemad and Mohsen Abdolvahab. Sara (Baran Kosari) is a woman in her early twenties who is living with her mother, Sima (Bita Farahi), in Tehran. While they clearly love one another, Sara and Sima rarely see eye to eye, and the fact they're sharing an apartment as Sara waits for her boyfriend to return from Canada (where he's attending college) for their upcoming wedding isn't helping at all. Sara has a history of drug abuse, and Sima realizes that her daughter has given up on methadone treatment and has begun using heroin again. Determined to see her daughter clean and sober in time for her wedding, Sima packs up Sara to take her to a treatment center near the Caspian Sea, but Sara fights her every step of the way and the journey becomes a painful experience for mother and daughter. Along the way, they pay a visit to Sara's father and Sima's former husband (Masoud Rayegan), offering a clue to the source of the family's tensions. Mainline (aka Khoon Bazi) received its North American premiere at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Bita Farahi, Baran Kosari, (more)
- 2005
Dreams fade as bombs fall in directing duo Rakhshan Bani-Etemad and Mohsen Abdolvahab's tale of a mother whose hopes for a bright future for her two children are forever dashed by the horrors of war. The year is 1988, and Iraqi bombs are laying waste to Tehran. In the Iranian countryside, concerned mother Gilaneh (Fatemeh Motamed Arya) watches helplessly as her son Ismaeel (Bahram Radan) marches off to war and her pregnant daughter, Maygol (Baran Kosari), vows to travel to the war-torn Iranian capitol to search for her husband, who has just abandoned his post. As the United States attacks Baghdad on the same date 15 years later, the weary mother lovingly tends to her ravaged son's lingering war wounds despite a local doctor's repeated pleas to move Ismaeel to a veteran's hospital. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Fatemeh Motamed Arya, Baran Kosari, (more)
Rakhshan Bani Etemad's urban drama centers on Tuba (Golab Adineh), a factory worker and matriarch of a raucous Tehran family. Her older daughter is pregnant and married to an abusive husband. The younger one, a high school student, is consumed with worry over a neighbor girl who suffers abuse at the hands of her father. Her youngest son is caught up in political radicalism and in danger of derailing his college aspirations, and the older one, Abbas (Mohammad Reza Forutan), is disgusted with his dead-end job and will do almost anything to realize his dream of moving to Japan to support the family. After losing all his money in what turns out to be a scam, Abbas' desperation gets the better of his judgement and he becomes involved in a drug deal that nearly costs him his life. ~ Tom Vick, Rovi
- Starring:
- Golab Adineh, Mohammad Reza Forutan, (more)
A woman edging into middle age must make some tough choices about her life and her work in this drama from Iran. Forugh Kia (Minoo Farshi) is a woman in her early '40s who has reached a crossroads in both her personal and professional lives. Forugh is a documentary filmmaker who has been forced by economics to set aside more personal projects in order to accept a commission from a television network to make a simplistic film about "the perfect mother." But Forugh has issues of her own about her role as a mother. After a contentious divorce, Forugh has begun dating again, and has entered into a new relationship with a doctor. But Forugh's son, Mani (Mani Kasraiyan), doesn't approve of her new beau and Forugh has to choose between her own happiness and that of her son. Banooyn-E Ordibeheshti was the winner of the Special Jury Award at the 1998 Fajr Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Minoo Farshchi, Mani Kasraiyan, (more)
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