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Fifi Howls from Happiness honors its subject with an engrossing look at his iconoclastic work and fascinating life.
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Whatever its virtues and flaws, "Fifi" performs the vital service of acquainting the world with an artist who deserves - despite his own dismissal of such notions - world recognition, if not immortality. October 30, 2014 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Whatever its virtues and flaws, "Fifi" performs the vital service of acquainting the world with an artist who deserves - despite his own dismissal of such notions - world recognition, if not immortality.
Peter Keough
Farahani's direction is artfully suggestive but also, at moments, oblique; she seems to think that she's making a Godardian essay-film. August 14, 2014 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Farahani's direction is artfully suggestive but also, at moments, oblique; she seems to think that she's making a Godardian essay-film.
Owen Gleiberman
By its bittersweet end, "Fifi Howls From Happiness" has stayed almost entirely in one apartment and yet somehow unveiled both a life in full and a blank canvas. August 14, 2014 | Full Review…
By its bittersweet end, "Fifi Howls From Happiness" has stayed almost entirely in one apartment and yet somehow unveiled both a life in full and a blank canvas.
Robert Abele
Though he does it with a grin, Mohassess rages against the dying of the light as well as many of the things the world presented him with during his life. August 8, 2014 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Though he does it with a grin, Mohassess rages against the dying of the light as well as many of the things the world presented him with during his life.
Godfrey Cheshire
That Ms. Farahani found Mr. Mohassess and persuaded him to share his story is a terrific coup, even if a great deal of his life's work remains elusive. August 7, 2014 | Full Review…
That Ms. Farahani found Mr. Mohassess and persuaded him to share his story is a terrific coup, even if a great deal of his life's work remains elusive.
Manohla Dargis
An involving documentary that in the final estimation feels a slight bit out of proportion. August 7, 2014 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
An involving documentary that in the final estimation feels a slight bit out of proportion.
Benjamin Mercer
This an extraordinarily singular work about an extraordinary man, both elegiac and rapturous; a film befitting a true leopard. August 7, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
This an extraordinarily singular work about an extraordinary man, both elegiac and rapturous; a film befitting a true leopard.
Matthew Lucas
The final sequence makes for unforgettable cinema. September 17, 2018 | Full Review…
The final sequence makes for unforgettable cinema.
Ken Eisner
Brilliant, loving, and as intensely political as any of Mohassess' paintings or sculptures, Fifi Howls from Happiness celebrates connection as much as it reveals isolation, dedication alongside outrage. August 12, 2014 | Rating: 9/10 | Full Review…
Brilliant, loving, and as intensely political as any of Mohassess' paintings or sculptures, Fifi Howls from Happiness celebrates connection as much as it reveals isolation, dedication alongside outrage.
Cynthia Fuchs
An enlightening documentary chronicling the career of the Persian Picasso. August 11, 2014 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
An enlightening documentary chronicling the career of the Persian Picasso.
Kam Williams
Beautifully modulated. Offers a remarkably uncensored glimpse into a very significant life through creation, exile and its inevitable yet noble end. August 9, 2014 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
Beautifully modulated. Offers a remarkably uncensored glimpse into a very significant life through creation, exile and its inevitable yet noble end.
Fr. Chris Carpenter
An intriguing, often highly poetic documentary that is almost the equal of its turbulent genius of a subject. August 8, 2014 | Full Review…
An intriguing, often highly poetic documentary that is almost the equal of its turbulent genius of a subject.
David Noh
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