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17th(2015)



Appropriate Behavior

Desiree AKHAVAN

  • USA, UK
  • 2014
  • 86min
  • DCP
  • color
  • Fiction

SYNOPSIS

Korean Premiere


 

2014 Sundance
 Film Festival
2014 OUTFEST
 Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize, Best Screenwriting

 


Synopsis
Shrin is struggling to become an ideal Persian daughter, politically correct bisexual and hip young Brooklynite but fails miserably in her attempt at all identities. Being without a cliche to hold onto can be a lonely experience.

 
 

 

Program Note

 A feature debut of Desiree AKHAVAN, who made a name for herself with the lesbian webisode, The Slope. AKHAVAN, who was selected as one of \"25 New Faces of Independent Film\" by Filmmaker Magazine in 2012, is an actress and screenwriter exceptionally good at comedy genre films. The film moves back and forth between Shirin and Maxine, who come to know each other, move in together, and break up eventually. Much inspired by Woody ALLEN\'s Annie Hall, AKHAVAN delivers a New Yorkerspecific black humor in a more sarcastic and remote sentiment, dancing through time. Three aspects of life is intertwined around Shirin, performed by AKHAVAN herself: everyday life of lesbian couples of Shirin and Maxine, Shirin\'s coming out in front of her Iranian family, and Shirin\'s everyday life as a professional of an after-school substitute teacher. That is, Shirin is not only a woman and bisexual, but also a city dweller with a professional job who is an Iranial-Amercian, and colored. Gender identity is one of many factors which determine a person\'s identity, and there are still more grey zones to be dealt with for the integration of identities between gender identity and other identities. [Sunah KIM]

PROGRAM NOTE

Korean Premiere


2014 Sundance
 Film Festival
2014 OUTFEST
 Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize, Best Screenwriting


Synopsis
Shrin is struggling to become an ideal Persian daughter, politically correct bisexual and hip young Brooklynite but fails miserably in her attempt at all identities. Being without a cliche to hold onto can be a lonely experience.

 
 

 

Program Note

 A feature debut of Desiree AKHAVAN, who made a name for herself with the lesbian webisode, The Slope. AKHAVAN, who was selected as one of \"25 New Faces of Independent Film\" by Filmmaker Magazine in 2012, is an actress and screenwriter exceptionally good at comedy genre films. The film moves back and forth between Shirin and Maxine, who come to know each other, move in together, and break up eventually. Much inspired by Woody ALLEN\'s Annie Hall, AKHAVAN delivers a New Yorkerspecific black humor in a more sarcastic and remote sentiment, dancing through time. Three aspects of life is intertwined around Shirin, performed by AKHAVAN herself: everyday life of lesbian couples of Shirin and Maxine, Shirin\'s coming out in front of her Iranian family, and Shirin\'s everyday life as a professional of an after-school substitute teacher. That is, Shirin is not only a woman and bisexual, but also a city dweller with a professional job who is an Iranial-Amercian, and colored. Gender identity is one of many factors which determine a person\'s identity, and there are still more grey zones to be dealt with for the integration of identities between gender identity and other identities. [Sunah KIM]

Director

  • Desiree AKHAVANDesiree AKHAVAN

    Iranian-American filmmaker Desiree AKHAVAN is the co-creator and star of the critically acclaimed web series The Slope, a comedy that follows a pair of superficial, homophobic lesbians in love. Her first feature, Appropriate Behavior, premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. Desiree was featured as one of Filmmaker Magazine¡¯s \"25 New Faces of Independent Film\" and will appear on the next season of Girls. She has a BA from Smith College and an MFA from NYU\'s Graduate Film Program.

Credit

  • ProducerCecilia FRUGIUELE
  • Cast Desiree AKHAVAN, Rebecca HENDERSON, Halley FEIFFER
  • Screenwriter Desiree AKHAVAN
  • Cinematography Chris TEAGUE
  • Art director Miren MARANON
  • Editor Sarah SHAW
  • Music Josephine WIGGS