Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine (2000)
DVDRip | Language: Farsi | Subtitles: English (.srt) | XviD 576x320 (16:9) | 89 min | 23.976 fps | 128 kbps | 698 Mb
Genre: Drama | RS.com
DVDRip | Language: Farsi | Subtitles: English (.srt) | XviD 576x320 (16:9) | 89 min | 23.976 fps | 128 kbps | 698 Mb
Genre: Drama | RS.com
Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine, the first movie in 20 years by the long-banned Bahman Farmanara, a onetime distributor of foreign films in North America, is a humorously death-haunted psychodrama in which the filmmaker—playing a movie director called Bahman Farjami—undertakes an absurd quest to document his own funeral. (The Village Voice)
Original title: Booye kafoor, atre yas
Farmanara creates a complex and incisive portrait of the lost idealism of an aging, counterculture generation still struggling to find a means of personal expression after persevering through the creative suppression of a secular, totalitarian regime (under Shah Reza Pahlavi) only to find a substituted form of censorship instituted after the revolution. By reflecting Bahman's inutile existence through humor and recurring situational absurdity, he transforms his somber, self-reflexive meditation on unrealized ambition, alienation, and mortality into a thoughtful and purgative human comedy on survival, optimism, and resilience.
Bahman Farmanara (Persian: بهمن فرمان آرا , born Jan.23, 1942 in Tehran) is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, and film producer. Bahman Farmanara is the second son in a family of four brothers and one sister. The family business was Textile and he was the only son who did not join the business and went off to United Kingdom and later on to US to study acting and directing. He graduated from University of Southern California with a BA in Cinema in 1966.After returning to Iran and doing military service, he joined the National Iranian Radio and Television.
He produced some major films, including Abbas Kiarostami's first feature, The Report (1977), Bahram Bayzai's The Crow (1977), Khosrow Haritash's Divine One (1976), Mohammad-Reza Aslani's Wind and Chess (1976) and Valerio Zurlini's Desert of the Tartars (1977 co-production with Italy and France).
Farmanara moved to France and then to Canada in 1980, establishing a distribution company and a film festival for children and young adults in Vancouver. He returned to Iran in the late 1990s. He made and starred in Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine (film) in 2000, which won several prizes from the International Fajr Film Festival, including The Best Film and The Best Director awards.