‘Bidad’ Review: A Young Woman Raises Her Voice, Fighting for the Right to Sing in a Daring Iranian Drama

Whereas Hollywood has told and retold “A Star Is Born” so many times as to make trite its plot — of a preternaturally gifted young female singer whose career is simultaneously encouraged and complicated by an alcoholic has-been — Iranian director Soheil Beiraghi’s bold, risky and occasionally clunky “Bidad” depicts how radically different that trajectory […]