During the late 1970s, Googoosh became involved with Homayoun Mesdaghi, and married him in 1979. Six years later, in 1985, she divorced Mesdaghi. She then married director Masoud Kimiai in 1991. They divorced in 2005. Despite being a symbol of many things that the revolution tried to overturn, especially related to perceptions of excessive Westernization, Googoosh remained in Iran for years afterward. After the revolution, Googoosh, like other artists, was forbidden from performing and her material was banned.
She would not perform again until Mohammad Khatami’s presidency, during which she was allowed to tour outside of the country. Produced after the Revolution, Snake Fang demonstrates Kimiai’s resilience in navigating the constraints of post-revolutionary cinema while still telling intense, socially conscious stories. Dark, suspenseful, tightly paced; combines thriller elements with moral dilemmas.
