 In 1995 , Iranian director Dariush Mehrjui released the film Pari , an unauthorized and loose adaptation of Salinger 's Franny and Zooey . Though the film could be distributed legally in Iran since the country has no official copyright relations with the United States , Salinger had his lawyers block a planned screening of the film at the Lincoln Center in 1998 . Mehrjui called Salinger 's action " bewildering " , explaining that he saw his film as " a kind of cultural exchange " . 
