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Mohammad Rasoulof, Pedro Almodóvar, Juliette Binoche Sign Petition Supporting ‘My Favourite Cake’ Directors as ‘Propaganda’ Trial Starts in Iran
Mohammad Rasoulov, Pedro Almodóvar and Juliette Binoche are among thousands supporting 'My Favourite Cake' directors' as their trial starts in Iran.
Signatories include Mohammad Rasoulof — the director of the Oscar-nominated feature “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” who in May fled from Iran to avoid prosecution related to that film — alongside Pedro Almodóvar, Juliette Binoche, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Agnieszka Holland, Hiam Abbas, Isabel Coixet and the directors of the Venice, Berlin, Rotterdam and Sydney film festivals. Since its 2024 Berlin bow, the tender rom-com about a 70-year-old woman named Mahin who decides to break her solitary routine and revitalize her love life — she appears unveiled in the film — has sold widely around the world and given audiences a glimpse of a rarely seen aspect of Iranian society. As Variety critic Jessica Kiang put it in her “My Favourite Cake” review, “Mahin embarks on an extremely genteel form of cruising, allowing the character’s sense of mischief and self-aware daring to peek through her natural, and socially mandated, reserve.”
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