Rakhshan Bani-Etemad Opens Fri Dec 29 at Grand Illusion. I feel compelled to stay my wrath. In part it's those damned veils. They sure seem that way to me. But Islamic women do not necessarily agree.
Many Islamic feminists regard the veil as a convenient convention.
I felt I was doing pretty well at not freaking out over the veils in this movie. As I grasped what I was seeing, and how little I understood it, I felt the breath go out of me. So much for my ability to insert myself into another culture. I was sickened. So let me say that the parent in The May Lady is seen as specifically female, not as generally human, and let me say also that it would be insolent of me to assert that the movie should take a broader view.