21st Houston Iranian Film Festival: The Patience Stone

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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

In an unnamed country torn apart by a war, a 30-something woman (Golshifteh Farahani) watches over her invalid husband (Hamidreza Javdan) in a decrepit room. When he is shot and rendered a vegetable, he is abandoned by his companions of the Jihad and his brothers. One day, the wife decides to tell the truth to him about her feelings about their relationship — she talks about her childhood, her suffering, frustrations, loneliness, dreams and desires.

The paralyzed man unconsciously becomes a syngue sabour, a magic stone which, according to Persian mythology, when told secrets of unhappiness will set the narrator free when shattered.

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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1001 Bissonnet St.
Houston, TX 77005
https://www.mfah.org/films/patience-stone/

TICKET INFO

$9 general admission; $7 MFAH members and seniors; $5 Film Buff members.
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