Review – The Stoning of Soraya M.

Fundamentalist misogyny turns lethal in post-revolution rural Iran. Unjustly accused of adultery by a husband too cheap to pay alimony, the title character suffers the title punishment in a brutally graphic sequence. But in many ways the execution itself isn’t as upsetting as the events leading up to it, particularly after the victim realizes she has neither recourse to justice nor hope of escape. Mozhan Navabi and Shohreh Aghdashloo turn in particularly touching performances as Soraya Manutchehri and her aunt respectively. Worth seeing