''Nose, Iranian Style'' is a 2005 Iranian
documentary film
A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...
directed by
Mehrdad Oskouei. It is about nose jobs (
rhinoplasty
Rhinoplasty (, nose + , to shape), commonly called nose job, medically called nasal reconstruction, is a plastic surgery procedure for altering and reconstructing the human nose, nose. There are two types of plastic surgery used – plastic sur ...
) 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
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, 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
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'' 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 (IDFA)(2005/Netherlands)
Nomination Golden MovieSquad DOC U! Award
* Salaam DK – Multi cultural Film Festival (2006/Denmark)
* 2nd Ukrainian Int’l Documentary Film Festival "Contact" (2006/Ukraine)
* 3rd EBS Int’l Documentary Film Festival (2006/Seoul, Korea)
* Oslo Documentary Film Festival (5 – 15 Oct 2006/Norway)
* 5th Tek Film Festival (2006/Italy)
* Sixth Biennial of Iranian Studies in Iran Heritage (2006/London, UK)
* 5th Int’l Documentary & Short Films Festival (2006/Prizren, Kozova)
* 1st Irans Film Festival (2006/Utrecht, Netherland)
* Rio de Janeiro Int'l Film Festival (2006 /Rio, Brazil)
* 9th Int’l 1001 documentary Film Festival (2006/Istanbul, Turkey)
* Film From the South (2006/Norway)
* Museum of Fine Arts US (2006/USA)
* Jakarta Int’l Film Festival (2006/Indonesia)
* UCLA Film & Television Archive (2007/Los Angeles, USA)
* Aljazeera Int'l Film Festival (2007/Aljazzera, Qatar)
* Syracuse Int'l Film Festival (2007/USA)
* Visual Representations of Iran (2008/St.Andrews, Scotland)
* Berlins Cinema Babylon (2008/Germany)
* Faito Documentary Film Festival (2008/Italy)
* Belmont World Film (2009/USA)
* 6th Planet Documentary Review Film Festival (2009/Poland)
* "Retrospective of Mehrdad Oskouei's films", Images Cinema (2011/Williamstown, USA)
* "Retrospective of Mehrdad Oskouei", Das Iranische Wien, Filmarchiv Austria (2012/Vienna. Austria)
References
External links
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2005 documentary films
2005 films
Documentary films about health care
Iranian documentary films
2000s Persian-language films
Works about plastic surgery
Persian-language documentary films
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