Plaisir d'amour en Iran

El Biffo

"The crossroads between sacred and profane art."

Adrian Jonathan

This is what every couple should talk about when they talk about love. Varda shows us how to delve into romantic subjects, while reminding us the poetic dissonance of religion and art.

Zac Weber

An exploration of sexuality within the confines of a traditional society. I enjoy Varda's curiosity and meandering camera, but this short film teeters dangerously close to commodifying Iran. Edward Said refers to this Western scholarly/artistic tendency more generally in his seminal text "Orientalism." I was quite fond of the final line: "A most titillating place for lovers, even if they are characters in a film."

comeandsee

varda invesigates almost everything in her cinema, and in this she looks at the sexuality in cinema, in images and how they can seduce. also it reminded me of marienbad, with many of the shots. and looked like it was a work only this member of the rive gauche could make. even in shorts, varda is a genius.

Renton47

Sometimes in beautiful architecture we are thinking about sex, and sometimes in sex we think about architecture. Sometimes we construct monuments in lieu of love and sometimes we write poems on toilet paper.

Christofi Cotonou

Lack of French understanding (and no subs) led me to be a bit confused at what they are saying. But the gist of two people from different worlds in love somewhere as breathtaking as this mosque in Esfahan needs no explanation. The artwork, architecture and beautiful exotic shots are fully realised. Short and sweet, an eastern delight.

robin

Fragment of one couple's journey, two universal lovers on a backdrop of a landscape they are trying to understand and decipher - wast, beautiful, mysterious and unfamiliar - much like love itself.

Quattro

Oh pls.