This comedy is raw and emotional in all the right ways.
When you sit down to watch a movie, the hope is always that it will resonate in some way, particularly when it's a movie about a group to which you belong, and historically a group forgotten or excluded from most mainstream North American narratives.
At its heart, more so than Leila's creative identity as a filmmaker, or her identity as a queer woman, the film is about the relationship between mothers and daughters, Leila and Shireen in particular. Leila embarks on a quest to understand her mother better, and in the process uncovers the family "scandal" that prompted her parents' move to America.
The same, too, can be said of the narration, and the way it unfolds. As the film begins, it is adult Leila who provides the context for the audience on everything. Through her adult, jaded, tired eyes we see her own youth as a child of two cultures, but we also get our first impressions of Shireen, Ali Reza, all her brothers, her grandmother Mamanjoon , and even the tense history of Iran-America relations told in humorous vignettes.
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