Have You Another Apple? / Baaz ham sib daari?

Directed by: Bayram Fazli

Iran / 2007 / 90 mins / 35 mm / Farsi with English Subtitles

Co-Presented with Persian Arts Festival

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A surrealistic and anti-clerical comic allegory Have You Another Apple opens during a dystopian reign in some unspecified middle eastern land. The despot ruler exerts complete subjugation over his populace with the help of the "dasdaran," black-clad, scythe-bearing warriors who sweep across the country on horseback, establishing a reign of terror. A hero (Zabih Afshar) rises from the populace, but proves himself more of an idiot than the muscle-bound deliverer that one might envision. Bald, slovenly, and overweight, he seems to exist only to fill his gut, and stumbles through life eliciting comic mayhem wherever he goes. Eventually, he pairs up with an intelligent woman (Leila Mousavi), who can barely stand him, and the two work together to deliver the country from its oppressors. Village after village, they awaken the (literally) sleeping populace and get them to rally against the sickle bearers. Equal part Mad Max and Buñuel, this film will have you laughing out loud and give you plenty to talk about for long after the end credits roll.

Copresented with Persian Arts Festival, whose exhibition "Weaving the Common Thread:
Perspectives from Iranian Artists" is at the Queens Museum of Art through March 16. Closing Reception March 15, 5-9pm