Night Out

Respectfully, this was awful for the following reasons:

It seems as if Amelia was trying hard to get chosen by the BFI for funding so whimsically ticked every popular box of this era:

A Black Muslim girl Rebelling Drinking Smoking a "drug" Seeing an edgy white woman Falling in love

It was just too cheesy and obviously written by a non-lesbian. Maybe a woman who "used" to waste other women's times but not a lesbian. There was no emotion in the protagonist because I imagine the script was based on fetish or a past phase.

When asked about why the writer chose to write this story it's because it "happened to her"... Another non lesbian dipping her toe into the lady pond, fetishising lesbianism then going back to safe hetero-land. Her telling of the story made it very bland and for that reason, unbelievable however the topic and casting would obviously get funding.

It's easy and not-sacrificial for a white (yes, Iranians are white too), non-muslim (your received pronunciation accent means you were probably raised non-muslim), straight woman to tell a lesbian "Black, muslim, lesbian love story" because she doesn't have to live with the shame and other negatives that come with this identity.

The writer should have left the story alone because she did it no justice. It wasn't hers to tell. I don't care if her father was the president of Shiraz, the storytelling was inauthentic.

The first temptation is to write a correct crafted story. Three friends in night , in club. For one of them, first time . The Muslim clothes are good clue about education and family rules.

In club, a chain of discoveries, quasi experiences, from alcoholic drinks to sexual positions drawings on restroom walls, animated in forced manner, to drug, smoking, first kiss, talk with waitress and innocence in few not so convincing demonstrations.

Tsion Habte acts in decent manner but her Meena seems only a fist of cliches.

In fact, the souless story , cold - cirrect crafted, predictable and with blanck final is the real bad point of this film about experiences of a girl from stric area , not knowing, imagine or hope to know in what measure the experiences changes her.