Facing Mirrors (Aynehaye rooberoo)

A Fereshteh Taerpour, Negar Azarbayjani, Ghazal Shakeri, Naji Honar production. Worldwide Sales: Khaneh (Teheran). Created by Taerpour. Directed by Negar Azarbayjani. Script by Azarbayjani, Fereshteh Taerpour.With: Sheyesteh Irani, Ghazal Shakeri, Homayoon Ershadi, Hengameh Ghaziani, and Saber Abar.Iranian femme director Negar Azarbeyjani's first feature, "Facing Mirrors," presents two women hugely different at school and values -Body a naive traditionalist forced by conditions to aid her family, another a wealthy pre-op transsexual running abroad. Whenever a lengthy taxi ride entangles their destinies, they gradually forge an unlikely friendship rooted in newly found solidarity, instead of moralistic notions of tolerance, which enables each to assist another accomplish complementary goals. This fascinating dual character study could lure gay and straight auds alike. Randa (Ghazal Shakeri) continues to be driving a cab since her husband visited jail for any debt suffered by a dishonest partner. She accumulates a fare who desires travel miles past the city limits, offering a considerable bonus for that trouble. Rana, a dutiful wife already way to avoid it of her safe place in her own unwillingly assumed job as cabbie, develops progressively uneasy about her strange passenger because the drive continues. Adineh (Sheyesteh Irani, probably the most masculine and assertive from the soccer match-crashes women in Jafar Panahi's "Offside"), registers desperation as cell-telephone calls to some friend demonstrate that her father has sent law enforcement to create her home. She's running the nation to flee an arranged marriage designed by her father, plans to obtain a transgender operation, as well as wants to locate a more welcome publish-op milieu. Realizing Rana's disinclination to take, Adineh initially allays Rana's fears by guaranteeing her that, despite her shorn hair and baseball cap, she is a real lady (and for that reason harmless). Later, though, she completely terrifies Rana by acknowledging she's a transsexual. The moments of these two women within the vehicle, never as minimalistically staged as Abbas Kiarostami's "Ten," unfold similar to a culture clash comedy, counterpointing Adineh's casual modernity with Rana's shocked responses -- until Rana hysterically rushes from the cab and it is hurt. After Adineh takes control of Rana's recovery, the cabbie endeavors to the town to satisfy Adineh's closed-minded relative and advocate on her newly found friend. Helmer Azarbayjani and her co-scripter, pioneering femme producer Fereshteh Taerpour, avoid gender stereotypes within their depiction from the transsexual, assisted greatly by Irani's deeply supportive perf. Adineh shows a strangely enough androgynous concern and empathy for Rana, achieving a type of gender synthesis in her own role as health professional. Consequently, her genuine kindness impresses Rana, who ends up determining with Adineh's mission for acceptance. Indeed Rana's championing of her new friend becomes an unpredicted supply of fearlessness, giving her back the feeling of purpose she lost together with her husband's jail time. Thesping is great within this character-driven drama, both stars abstaining from heavy-handedness in support of individualized understanding.Camera (color), Touraj Mansoori editors, Sepideh Abdolvahab, Azarbayjani music, Fardin Khalatbari art director, Ghazal Shakeri seem, Mehran Malakouti. Examined at Montreal World Film Festival (Concentrate on World Cinema), August. 26, 2011. Running time: 102 MIN. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

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