Desiree Akhavan plays Shirin, a young and directionless Brooklynite who finds herself in a rut after experiencing a break up with her former lover Maxine (Rebecca Henderson). Shirin is a woman that ...

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Dejection of rejection: Desiree Akhavan as Shirin, blue in Brooklyn There’s a nicely satirical sense of milieu in its depiction of Brooklyn artistic lifestyles There are also the frequently awkward ...

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Before catching writer/director/star Desiree Akhavan’s Appropriate Behavior at Brooklyn's BAMcinemaFest last summer, I was admittedly already a huge fan. A close follower of her old web series The ...

The feature debut of Desiree Akhavan, “Appropriate Behavior” opens with the writer/director/star casually carrying a strap-on dildo down a Brooklyn street. Therein lies both the irony that makes the ...

Shirin, the protagonist of Appropriate Behavior, never seems to quite figure out what it is she wants. Desiree Akhavan, who wrote and directed the film on top of starring as the eternally frustrated ...

Director, actor and writer Desiree Akhavan‘s first full-length feature “Appropriate Behavior” follows a young woman trying to navigate her way through a difficult break up while dealing with her ...

Written, directed and starring Desiree Akhavan APPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR is Akhavan's debut feature and it premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2014. For Shirin, being part of a perfect Persian family isnt ...

Director, screenwriter and actor Desiree Akhavan's debut feature opens Friday in select theaters and on demand. The movie is about a bisexual Iranian-American trying to get over her break up. Here's a ...