Gardena Cinema screens “Reading Lolita in Tehran”
Books to lead young minds astray! “Reading Lolita in Tehran” – July 1 at the Gardena Cinema by Bondo Wyszpolski It’s an evocative title, isn’t it? A couple of days ago Randy Berler’s South Bay Film Society enjoyed watching this film, directed by Eran Riklis, and based on the memoir (published in 2003) by Azar Nafisi. They saw it at the AMC Rolling Hills 20. Well, the response was so overwhelming that screenings are being reprised on Wednesday, July 1, at the Gardena Cinema, with showtimes at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. It’s not playing anywhere else right now, and that’s because it’s not opening in the Los Angeles area for another two weeks. Today we’re going to talk about Pride and PrejudiceThe storyline? “As a professor in Iran, Nafisi secretly gathers seven of her female students to read and discuss forbidden classics of Western literature.” Nafisi’s book club took place from 1995 to 1997, but essentially the same censorship that was in place 30 years ago is still in place today. The cast “is composed of Iranian actors banned and exiled by the Iranian regime.” In the film, the books discussed include “The Great Gatsby,” “Daisy Miller,” “Washington Square,” “One Thousand and One Nights,”…
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