A Fox Under a Pink Moon review – Iranian teen refugee paints boldly imaginative self-portrait
Most “games” – as border-crossing sorties with people-smugglers are euphemistically called – end in failure in the wilderness at the hands of hostile law enforcement officers.
Key points
- Gearing up for the next escape attempt, if she can dodge being beaten by her partner, the Turkish border police offer more of the same.
- She winds up back in the Iranian capital, with her violent husband.
- Soraya is hoping to join her mother, who left for Austria after the death of Soraya’s father when she was a child.
Of Afghan heritage, she watches the Taliban takeover on TV – and over-identifies with the stricken populace desperate to board a US plane.
Fleeing a dead-end life as a Tehran maid, Soraya – who is just 16 at the beginning of the film – starts out at an Istanbul asylum centre.
Additional details
- Whatever the latest travail, she narrates it to camera in a numbed monologue.
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