Reviews

‘How Dare You Have Such A Rubbish Wish’: IDFA Review By NEIL YOUNG

Prominent filmmaker, artist and actress Mania Akbari reclaims her body—and that of all the other women in Iranian film. Using almost a hundred excerpts spanning Iran's film history, from the silent era to just after the Islamic Revolution—films that have all since been banned—she tells a story of liberation, exploitation, emancipation and ultimately oppression. by Neil Young 

How Dare You Have Such a Rubbish Wish: Sight & Sound Reviwe by Carmen Gary 

This important film by Mania Akbari, an Iranian exile based in London, compiles dozens of clips of Iranian women in popular cinema from the silent era up until the 1979 Islamic Revolution to make an impassioned statement of female agency.

 By Carmen Gary

How Dare You Have Such a Rubbish Wish: POFF Review by Edvinas Pukšta

Persistent and brave, the exiled Iranian artist Mania Akbari sensationally restores 90 years of moving images of hidden Iranian cinematic history in a fictitiously invented story of a male gaze which suddenly turns desire into oppression, obedience and ownership. She reconstructs the deleted wonders of Iranian cinema, compares their radical modifications and finds footage of the first protest with 20,000 women on the streets. She boldly seeks to restore and reclaim her own body after a long nasty battle against breast cancer.  By Edvinas Pukšta

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