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My Favourite Cake review – charming portrayal of a 70-year-old Iranian’s appetite for romance

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Heroine Mahin (Lily Farhadpour) is fiercely determined to revitalise her mundane existence and taste a better life

As well as everything else, this wonderfully sweet and funny film will contribute to the debate about whether repressive regimes are the nursery of artistic greatness. The Iranian government has prevented the film’s two directors, Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha, from travelling to Berlin to attend their own premiere; six months ago, their production offices were raided and computers and hard drives confiscated. But, fortunately, the film-makers had a copy stored in another country, and the film’s gentle humanity is a compelling rebuke to this fatuous, clumsy repression.

The authorities had apparently got wind of scenes in which women show their hair, and do not wear the hijab with enough modesty; the morality police drive around Tehran intimidating them with self-important purpose. The 70-year-old heroine – who wistfully remembers a time when hijabs were not required at all – stands up to these uniformed bullies and rescues a woman from their clutches.

This is Mahin (a lovely performance from Lili Farhadpour), whose story is a meditation on love and loss, loneliness and old age, and on the price at which long-term married happiness is bought. It is a meditation on how women come to terms with the destiny of widowhood, of knowing that they will almost certainly outlive their husbands. Mahin is herself a widow whose daughter and grandchildren live abroad, and her muted existence alone in her apartment is revealed in a series of tremendously composed tableaux. There are FaceTime phone calls with her daughter which somehow never allow for a proper talk. She has difficulty getting to sleep and doesn’t get up before noon. She waters the plants in her garden, goes shopping and occasionally hosts lunches for her female friends, at which the dominant theme is everyone’s various ailments, discussed at hilarious and explicit length.

But the conversation turns to whether it is possible to find romance again at their age. Why not? And so Mahin, without quite admitting it to herself, expands and modifies her aimless daytime schedule with a secret end in view: to meet a man. Mahin hangs out in the bakery queue, at the park, at a fancy hotel coffee shop and finally at a modest restaurant where pensioners’ food vouchers can be redeemed. And she finds herself meeting cute with Faramarz (Esmaeel Mehrabi), a modest, personable single man of her age. He is a cab driver and military veteran, who himself is of Mahin’s independent cast of mind: he got into trouble with joyless authorities for playing a musical instrument in a wedding band.

And so Faramarz and Mahin have their moment together at her apartment, where she offers to bake him her favourite cake. It is a moment of emotional connection for which they have saved up all their thoughts and feelings since becoming single – as if the entirety of their late-life inner existences are now being poured out to each other. There is something quietly magnificent in it. Moments like these in life are poignantly brief – but many never have them at all. It’s a lovely film.

My Favourite Cake screened at the Berlin Film Festival and is in UK cinemas from 13 September.

[nununiverse]

Mehrad Mardani Desi man

[ghelgheli]

Dishab Ye Basiji Koshtam is back on spotify jsyk in case you want to put it in any playlists or share it again :)

thx refigh <3

[l3fool]

I was tagged by @mrsnarl for this. Your songs suggestion was really nice especially cause I want to learn Italian haha and it's very helpful!

I'm Persian one of these is Farsi..

Jomeh - Farhad Mehrad

The Love You Save (May Be Your Own) - Joe Tex

Exuma, The Obeah Man - Exuma

Simply Shady - George Harrison

Stoned Again - King Krule

@king-of-the-birds @lalaballa1977 @skyer0cks you're free to not do this 🤓💕

[tfc2211]

▶ Windmills Of Your Mind

Khaab Dar Bidari (1994)

Farhad (singer)

[liyahmackenzie]

Silly Intrusive Thought:

Today I learned that "barf" means "snow" in Farsi. I came across it as I was looking at Iranian singer Farhad Mehrad's albums. That's a hilarious translation. I want to make a comic about it.

[languagesandpain]

The reason I like to listen to Mehrad Hidden's interviews for Farsi practice is because he speaks about 3x slower than the people interviewing him and so i get like a solid 20% of what he's saying

For the other person I'm just like.... i think they said the weather is hot 30 minutes ago but I might have misheard...?

[theelderhazelnut]

Another song for Ombra!!!

[beardedmrbean]

A dog missing from her owner's California home for nearly a year turned up more than 2,000 miles away in Michigan.

The Grosse Pointe Animal Adoption Society said on social media that the terrier mix was reported wandering loose in Harper Woods by a concerned resident who contacted local police.

Harper Woods Police brought the canine to the shelter, where a microchip scan identified her as Mishka, a dog missing from her owner's San Diego home for almost a year.

The shelter contacted Mishka's owners, who turned out to be vacationing in Minnesota. Mishka's human dad, Mehrad Houman, made the 10-hour, 690-mile drive to pick up his beloved pet and bring her back to his family.

The shelter said it was a mystery how Mishka came to be 2,343 miles from home.

[milkyway-ashes]

Hi Setia, it's Lio! Do you have any other Iranian songs/artists to recommend? 🫶🏼 I'd love to discover some more!!

hey! how you doing? :D

aw, I'm glad the ones that I recommended have interested you :3

anyways, one of the artists that I absolutely love is Farhad Mehrad! his songs are so soulful, yet they can always make someone cry 😭

these are some of his original songs:

by the way!!! in the early 60s, before he got into writing his own songs in Persian, he used to cover English rock n roll songs and he'd perform them with the band that he was in, The Black Cats. (its videos can be found on youtube - just search "The Black Cats Farhad")

speaking of Black Cats, some of the other members also left this band to start their solo careers - just like Farhad. one of them was Shahram Shabpareh. even though at the start of his career, he was influenced by American artists and his focus was on jazz and/or rock n roll, after he left the Black Cats, his genre changed a lot and since then, he's been known for his disco songs and being an Iranian "one-man Abba" 😄

if you liked his songs, I also recommend another pop singer from the same era: Googoosh. back in the 70s, she was mostly famous for being an actress, but her songs are nice too :)

also, in the 60s, around the time that the Black Cats was formed, there were also some other bands like them that were trying their best to be as great as the American and British artists that they looked up to. these bands (Black Cats, The Rebels, Golden Ring,...) would usually have gigs only in Tehran and Abadan. well, their members were all so young and new to the music industry back then. so, their works didn't have much quality. but one cool thing about them is that they liked to use their own creativity when covering English songs and give an Iranian atmosphere to them. for example, they'd play the songs in 6/8 time which is a common time signature for folk Persian songs; or they'd add some Persian lyrics to the song. however, I personally think that this idea wouldn't work out well sometimes...

here's a playlist of Iranian music of the 60s and in the song "What He Can Do" by The Rebels, you can easily hear how this idea of adding Iranian elements has made the song kinda low-quality. because this combination of pop-rock and folk Iranian doesn't have an Iranian sound anymore 🥴

umm....that's all for now ig :)) <3

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