The Queen and I est un film très personnel. Il réunit deux femmes très différentes (une impératrice déchue et une militante pour les droits de l’Homme), toutes deux exilées et liées, à l’occasion de ce film, par une amitié tout à fait inattendue.

 

A fascinating encounter of two women with clashing political visions, who develop an improbable friendship in the two years of their association. Nahid expressly appears on-screen together with the queen and in the voice-over tells about the problems she runs into. For example, out of sympathy and for fear that the now 70-year-old Farah will refuse further cooperation, she does not really dare ask the queen any really confronting questions about the shah's heartless regime. These are interesting reflections, which bring to light a number of dilemmas every documentary-maker contends with. In how far do you let your subjects impose their will on you? And to what extent do you comply with the image people want to create of themselves?

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