Reading Lolita in Tehran vs The French Italian
The French Italian has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.3/10 for Reading Lolita in Tehran). The French Italian is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 48m. Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Reading Lolita in Tehran
The French Italian| Reading Lolita in Tehran | The French Italian | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.3/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2024 | 2024 |
| Length | 1h 48m | 1h 32m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | United States of America |
| Director | Eran Riklis | Rachel Wolther |
| Main cast | Lara Wolf, Rita Yahan-Farouz, Raha Rahbari, Golshifteh Farahani, Reza Diako | Jon Rudnitsky, Sunita Mani, Aristotle Athari, Catherine Cohen, Soojeong Son |
Synopsis
Reading Lolita in Tehran
As Islamic morality squads stage arbitrary raids in Tehran and as fundamentalists seize hold of the universities, Azar Nafisi, an inspired teacher, secretly gathers six of her most committed female students to read forbidden western classics. Unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, they soon removed their veils, their stories intertwining with the novels they read: just like the heroines of Nabokov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James or…
The French Italian
Doug and Valerie have made a mistake. Their hate-fueled obsession with the jerks downstairs — who always seem to be singing karaoke in a brownstone, who even does that? — recently led them to flee the city for Doug’s parents’ place upstate, giving up a great deal on a rent-stabilized apartment. Their friends are horrified, and regret is setting in. They start plotting their revenge— and before they know it, they’re staging an off-Broadway play…
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