of Iran after Islamic Republic when the men used to shape and limit all the aspects of a woman life such as her education, career, life-style, goals, and marriage. Unlike all the previous films in the cinema of Iran, the leading character of the Two Women (Do Zan) is a lady naming Fereshteh which means angel. Instead of showing her as a typical housewife whose only goal is to feed the demands of her father and husband, the film focuses on the subjectivity of Fereshteh as a rebellion, too far from the meaning of angel and an ideal Persian woman, who is adventurous, literate, decisive, and purposeful. She thinks independently and she works as a teacher not only to use her knowledge but also to help her family financially which is so uncommon of a woman at her time. For the very first time, Milani directs the film based on the total presence of a woman, her feelings and thoughts, and shows the world how the a woman's life is objectified by men trying to govern her life in a patriarchal society and how the men can turn a strong, independent woman to a helpless, broken one. About the film-Maker Tahmineh Milani was born in 1960. She is a professional film director, screenwriter, and producer who came to the limelight by breaking all the traditional and conventional norms about women and their presence in Iran's society. Being sentenced to prison have not stopped her from expressing their feminist ideas freely and finally her style has become a canon against which other feminist works would be evaluated. See also Tahmineh Milani Niki Karimi Merila Zarei Cinema of Iran References External links Jasmin Darznik, Free bird: Tahmineh Milani's "Two Women", August 8, 2000, The Iranian. 1999 films Iranian drama films 1990s Persian-language films 1990s feminist films Films set in Isfahan Films whose writer won the Best Screenplay Crystal Simorgh