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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

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