
Tehran's air pollution has reached maximum levels because of thermal inversion. Unmarried 30-something Niloofar lives with her aged mother, and stays busy with her alterations shop. When doctors insist that her mother must leave smoggy Tehran for her respiratory health, Niloofar's brother and family elders decide that she must also move away to accompany her mother. Niloofar is torn between family loyalty and living her own life and pursuing a potential love interest. She is ... (Full plot summary below)
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Tehran's air pollution has reached maximum levels because of thermal inversion. Unmarried 30-something Niloofar lives with her aged mother, and stays busy with her alterations shop. When doctors insist that her mother must leave smoggy Tehran for her respiratory health, Niloofar's brother and family elders decide that she must also move away to accompany her mother. Niloofar is torn between family loyalty and living her own life and pursuing a potential love interest. She is the youngest and she has always obeyed their orders, but this time she must stand up for herself.
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| Irish TimesTara BradySahar Dowlatshahi, an actor who can emote with just gaze and eyebrows, beautifully complements [writer-director Behnam Behzad's] nuanced approach. |
| Time OutTrevor JohnstonLike Asghar Farhadi's acclaimed recent movies, this is a story about middle-class Tehran and the layers of conflict that evolve out of seemingly ordinary circumstances. |
| Little White LiesAmy BowkerA thoughtful meditation on female agency in contemporary Tehran. |
| Irish IndependentPaul Whitington[it's about] a depressingly familiar theme in Iranian society: the side-lining of women by a bull-headed, retrograde theocracy. But Behzadi's direction, and Dwolatshahi's subtle, elegant performance, make Inversion a lot less dryly didactic than that. |
| Film Ireland MagazineStephen PorzioInversion feels like a neo-realist movie. The settings appear tangible and authentic. The actors disappear into their characters. There is no soundtrack, just the noise of radios and ringtones. |
| Sunday Independent (Ireland)Aine O'ConnorTehran's poor air quality is a defining issue and a metaphor for the oppression of women in Behnam Behzadi's understated but effective film. |
| The ListHannah McGillIf its literal context is specific to Iran, the film also speaks to all of us about what happens when what we want clashes with what is expected of us. |
| GuardianPeter BradshawIt is an involving story, but I found it sometimes a little dessicated, and the ending rather shies away from the intractable dilemmas that had been so painful. |
| Financial TimesNigel AndrewsBehzadi's humanist miniaturism is so subtle - so "ordinary" on the surface - that at times it could pass for soap opera. But the characters are intertwined with a lethal craft. |
| Radio TimesDavid ParkinsonSetting several scenes in claustrophobic interiors that are cocooned by a choking haze and the din of electronic devices, Behzadi adheres closely to the conventions of Iranian feminist drama. |