A documentary on provocative artist Bahman Mohassess, the so-called "Persian Picasso," whose acclaimed paintings and sculptures dominated pre-revolutionary Iran.... (Full plot summary below)
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A documentary on provocative artist Bahman Mohassess, the so-called "Persian Picasso," whose acclaimed paintings and sculptures dominated pre-revolutionary Iran.
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| Screen InternationalDavid D'ArcyFifi Howls From Happiness evokes feelings in exile of the liveliness of culture in Tehran decades earlier, without a breath of nostalgia. |
| Slant MagazineDiego SemereneMitra Farahani rescues the doc from becoming a talking-head fest by embracing her creative self as a character and exposing the travails of her own authorship process. |
| Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleBy its bittersweet end, Fifi Howls From Happiness has stayed almost entirely in one apartment and yet somehow unveiled both a life in full and a blank canvas. |
| Georgia StraightKen EisnerThe final sequence makes for unforgettable cinema. |
| Movie MezzanineAmir SoltaniFrom the allegorical opening to the film's shocking, painful, but expected end, Farahani exposes as much of herself as she does of him; she's no less fascinating a subject. |
| Baret NewsKam WilliamsAn enlightening documentary chronicling the career of the Persian Picasso. |
| Boston GlobePeter KeoughIn person, as seen in Fifi Howls From Happiness, Mitra Farahani’s ambitious and self-reflexive documentary of the artist’s last days, Mohassess enthusiastically acts out those traits. It’s a performance enhanced by his diabolical, phlegm-choked laughter at his own bleakly ironic pronouncements and denunciations of the world in general. |
| Film Journal InternationalDavid NohAn intriguing, often highly poetic documentary that is almost the equal of its turbulent genius of a subject. |
| New York TimesManohla DargisA portrait of the artist as a refusenik, a recluse, a survivor and a stubborn question mark, “Fifi Howls From Happiness” registers, by turns, as a celebration, an excavation and an increasingly urgent rescue mission. |
| NonficsDaniel WalberFifi Howls from Happiness avoids all of the typical problems that hurt documentaries about artists, but director Mitra Faharani doesn't quite manage to make it one of the best, either. |
