During this time he made a feature-length semi-documentary about the poet Arthur Rimbaud for French TV, Voyage au Pays de Rimbaud in 1983. It was shown at the 1983 Venice Film Festival and at the 1983 London Film Festival.In 1985, Mehrjui and his family returned to Iran and Mehrjui resumed his film career under the new regime.
In Hamoun (1989), a portrait of an intellectual whose life is falling apart, Mehrjui sought to depict his generation’s post-revolutionary turn from politics to mysticism. Hamoon was voted the best Iranian film ever by readers and contributors to the Persian journal Film Monthly.In 1995, Mehrjui made Pari, an unauthorized loose film adaptation of J. D. Salinger’s book Franny and Zooey.
