I had been looking forward to seeing this: written and directed by Desiree Akhavan, who also stars as the lead character, Shirin. The movie uses all the familiar cliches of a Brooklyn-area hipster lesbian love story, with an insistently deadpan tone, and yet with the added depth and complexity of the lead character being the daughter of immigrants from Iran, and not “out” to her parents. So it’s a love story. It’s also the story of being the child of immigrants, of having feet in two worlds, the American and the Persian.
I really liked it.
My review of Appropriate Behavior is now up at Rogerebert.com.
