April 7, 2004
Beyond words
April 3, 2004
The Guardian
Samira Makhmalbaf is 24, and already
a veteran film-maker in Iran. She like things difficult, she
tells Sally
Vincent. For
instance,
her latest film, set in Afghanistan, is about a woman who sets
aside her burka and plans to become president. Last night, Samira Makhmalbaf did not sleep well.
Neither did I. We had been thinking about things. By four in the
morning
I had
solved the Mystery of the Universe, which astounding enlightenment
faded by 5.15 into fidgety unease, while Samira, clever, focused
as she is, had brooded the night away and come to the conclusion
that life is very, very, very, very hard and that, all things
considered, this is exactly the way she likes it. To make a
very little art,
a very little love, she says, her voice as light as a child's,
is impossibly difficult. And she is so happy she has worked
that one out she is now resolved to make everything as difficult
as
possible for herself, in the certain knowledge that those things
that come easily are not worth having. One of us, it seems,
did not waste her sleepless night >>> Full text
Photo: Linda Nylind
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