Appropriate Behaviour
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Director Desiree Akhavan Screenplay Desiree Akhavan Duration Country United Kingdom | 6.8/10 IMDb Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance Music director Josephine Wiggs Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Desiree Akhavan (screenplay) Release date January 18, 2014 (2014-01-18) (Sundance)
January 16, 2015 (2015-01-16) (USA) Cast Desiree Akhavan (Shirin), Rebecca Henderson (Maxine), Halley Feiffer (Crystal), Scott Adsit (Ken), Anh Duong (Nasrin), Hooman Majd (Merhdad)Similar movies The Voyeur , All Ladies Do It , Sexual Chronicles of a French Family , The Lover , Love , Turkey Shoot | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Shirin struggles to become an ideal Persian daughter, a politically correct bisexual, and a hip young woman from Brooklyn.
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Appropriate Behaviour is an British comedy film, which premiered on January 18, 2014 at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. Written and directed by Desiree Akhavan, the film stars Akhavan as Shirin, a bisexual Persian American woman in Brooklyn struggling to rebuild her life after breaking up with her girlfriend Maxine (Rebecca Henderson).
The films cast also includes Scott Adsit, Halley Feiffer, Anh Duong, Hooman Majd, Arian Moayed and Aimee Mullins, and is the second feature film by UK-based company Parkville Pictures. The film had a theatrical release on January 16, 2015 in United States and released on March 6, 2015 in UK.
For Shirin, being part of a perfect Persian family isn’t easy. Acceptance eludes her from all sides: her family doesn’t know she’s bisexual, and her ex-girlfriend, Maxine , can’t understand why she doesn’t tell them. Even the six-year-old boys in her moviemaking class are too ADD to focus on her for more than a second. Following a family announcement of her brother’s betrothal to a parentally approved Iranian prize catch, Shirin embarks on a private rebellion involving a series of pansexual escapades, while trying to decipher what went wrong with Maxine.
Plot
Shirin is struggling to be an ideal Persian daughter, a politically correct bisexual, and a hip young Brooklynite but fails miserably in her attempt at all identities.
Cast
Reception
Appropriate Behavior received mostly positive reviews from critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports a 98% of positive responses from the critics. . On Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating out of 100 reviews from film critics, the film holds an average score of 75, based on 16 reviews, indicating a generally favorable response.
Andrew Barker of Variety, said in his review that "It may be a lesbian Persian-American Girls knockoff, but writer-director-star Desiree Akhavans debut still packs plenty of punch." David Rooney in his review for The Hollywood Reporter praised the film by saying that "The promise of fresh cultural perspectives gives way to a more amorphous slice of contemporary romantic angst comedy." Katie Walsh of Indiewire grade the film B+ by saying that "Funny, unique, and entirely inappropriate, Appropriate Behavior is a supremely satisfying and irreverent take on the New York rom-com."
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