Salma Hayek is somewhat questionably cast as Isaac’s beautiful, strong-willed wife Farnez, a former writer and mother to the couple’s two children Parviz (Jamie Ward) and Shirin (Ariana Molkara). Adrien Brody plays Isaac Amin, the family’s introverted patriarch who acquired significant wealth as a gemologist and jeweller to Tehran’s social and political elite, including the Shah’s wife. Based in part on Sofer’s own experiences growing up in Tehran during the Iranian Revolution, the book chronicles the ordeals faced by an affluent Persian-Jewish family in the wake of the revolution as the privilege they enjoyed under the Shah’s rule comes to an abrupt end and they are targeted by the new regime. Wayne Blair ( The Sapphires) directs this adaptation of The Septembers of Shiraz, the critically acclaimed 2007 debut novel from Iranian-American author Dalia Sofer.
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