If you have seen how women in Iran were portrayed in her piece "turbulent", her movie has the same effect. Her movie is set in Iran during the coup d'etat in 1953 's portraying the lives of 4 women from different classes between the ages of 15 and 50. Relating to the title, all the women's problems are essentially because of men. Each of them have their freedom (right to life, sanity, virginity, practising art etc.) taken away from them metaphorically because of the men in the film. It portrays how mens' rights are disproportionate to womens' rights in Iran, and how the women feel 'strangled' in Iran, just because they are women. Interestingly, this is before the 1979 revolution and the islamification of Iran. This movie was largely up to interpretation, where one of the main characters does not even speak throughout. One could easily write a hundred page essay just analysing the symbolism portrayed in the film. It is also not for the light of heart, and emotional ones will shed a few tears throughout numerous scenes.
It also distinctly portrayed how Iran was divided into 2 classes in the pre-revolution areas: the 'openminded' or artistic and educated, and the religious. These two groups had very different ideologies regarding politics, but yet the absence of women being involved as proportionately in politics is shown through one of the characters' longing to be involved in the coup and the absence of many women from the coup scenes.
I really recommend this film as a historically accurate artistic representation of feminism in Iran.
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