Nose, Iranian Style
Nose, Iranian Style is a 2005 Iranian documentary film directed by Mehrdad Oskouei. It is about nose jobs in Iran, which statistically has the most of any country. The documentary employs a semi-comedic tone, with the title referencing the earlier film Divorce, Iranian Style. Nose, Iranian Style relates the trend to politics, with it and the 2007 documentary Tehran: 11 pm connecting it to the importance of appearance, given the taboo of men and women directly and socially interacting. However, Oskouei said the film was truly a critique of excessive consumerism.
Variety critic Deborah Young positively reviewed Nose, Iranian Style as "A surprising, compulsively watchable documentary." It became Oskouei's most famous film internationally.
Festivals
- 18th Int'l Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
- Salaam DK – Multi cultural Film Festival
- 2nd Ukrainian Int’l Documentary Film Festival "Contact"
- 3rd EBS Int’l Documentary Film Festival
- Oslo Documentary Film Festival
- 5th Tek Film Festival
- Sixth Biennial of Iranian Studies in Iran Heritage
- 5th Int’l Documentary & Short Films Festival
- 1st Irans Film Festival
- Rio de Janeiro Int'l Film Festival
- 9th Int’l 1001 documentary Film Festival
- Film From the South
- Museum of Fine Arts US
- Jakarta Int’l Film Festival
- UCLA Film & Television Archive
- Aljazeera Int'l Film Festival
- Syracuse Int'l Film Festival
- Visual Representations of Iran
- Berlins Cinema Babylon
- Faito Documentary Film Festival
- Belmont World Film
- 6th Planet Documentary Review Film Festival
- "Retrospective of Mehrdad Oskouei's films", Images Cinema
- "Retrospective of Mehrdad Oskouei", Das Iranische Wien, Filmarchiv Austria