Fifi Az Khoshhali Zooze Mikeshad

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Fifi Az Khoshhali Zooze Mikeshad

2014

1h 37m

Documentary

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Bahman Mohassess was a celebrated artist before the 1979 Iranian Revolution, but he later destroyed many of his works before immigrating to Italy.

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Fifi Howls from Happiness honors its subject with an engrossing look at his iconoclastic work and fascinating life.

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Peter Keough

Boston Globe

10/30/2014

3/4

Whatever its virtues and flaws, "Fifi" performs the vital service of acquainting the world with an artist who deserves - despite his own dismissal of such notions - world recognition, if not immortality.

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Owen Gleiberman

BBC.com

08/14/2014

3/5

Farahani's direction is artfully suggestive but also, at moments, oblique; she seems to think that she's making a Godardian essay-film.

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Robert Abele

Los Angeles Times

08/14/2014

By its bittersweet end, "Fifi Howls From Happiness" has stayed almost entirely in one apartment and yet somehow unveiled both a life in full and a blank canvas.

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Mattie Lucas

From the Front Row

08/07/2019

3.5/4

This an extraordinarily singular work about an extraordinary man, both elegiac and rapturous; a film befitting a true leopard.

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Ken Eisner

Georgia Straight

09/17/2018

The final sequence makes for unforgettable cinema.

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Cynthia Fuchs

PopMatters

08/12/2014

9/10

Brilliant, loving, and as intensely political as any of Mohassess' paintings or sculptures, Fifi Howls from Happiness celebrates connection as much as it reveals isolation, dedication alongside outrage.

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03/09/2021

A very personal portrait of the modern Persian artist, Bahman Mohasses, with many intimate nuances, till his death. Some parts were also relevant for a reconstruction of the history of Persian modern art.

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12/31/2014

What a character and such talent. Really glad I saw this and learned about this part of art and Iranian history.

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08/24/2014

There are no words to explain the complex emotions that you feel throughout this movie. Spoken by someone who is not so keen on documentaries. A must see.

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08/20/2014

Unless U want to be totally depressed STAY AWAY from this film!!!! Or come to see someone die from cigerette smoking!!! Why did this get 100 % rating???

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08/15/2014

An interesting film about a bizarre and very interesting ARTIST

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08/06/2014

Elegantly human. A portrait of an artist at the end of his life. In between his wheezy laughing and mouse-like appearance, Mohassess reveals himself and makes suggestions to Mitra Farahni on how she should make her documentary - most of which respectfully she takes.

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Mitra Farahani

Director

Mitra Farahani

Screenwriter

Marjaneh Moghimi

Producer

Fereydoun Firouz

Executive Producer

Tara Kamangar

Original Music

Mitra Farahani

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Synopsis

Bahman Mohassess was a celebrated artist before the 1979 Iranian Revolution, but he later destroyed many of his works before immigrating to Italy.

Director: Mitra Farahani
Producer: Marjaneh Moghimi
Screenwriter: Mitra Farahani
Distributor: Music Box Films
Production Co: Butimar Prod.
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: Persian
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 8, 2014, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 1, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $13.0K
Runtime: 1h 37m