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Beauty Parlor

Wide Angle

CountryPakistan
Production Year1999
Running Time19min
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Program Note

Four different episodes show how various women assert their suppressed desires through the emotional and physical masks forced upon them. Some episodes capture the subtle tensions of the disintegration of friendship between two women caused by their conflicting sexual preferences and the gloomy, discrete life of a disabled eunuch drag queen. The other episodes rhythmically show women′s confusion and frustration between desire and taboo, fantasy and reality: Another episode shows a woman about to enter married life and another woman who has rejected the marital system.

Director

Mehreen Jabbar

Mehreen worked in advertising in Pakistan before studying film, television and video at UCLA in the United States. After returning to Pakistan, she directed and produced critically acclaimed TV movies, drama series/serials, and short films including the award-winning [Daughters of the Late Colonel′], and [Sanam Gazida, Afsoon Khawab, Deeda-e-Purkhoon, and Lal Baig], a four-part television show. Mehreen is a founding member of WAR(War Against Rape) and the Kara Film Festival in Karachi(Pakistan’s only international film festival). This is Mehreen’s first feature length film.

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