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 ...

She’s overeducated, underemployed, badly sexed — you might think you’ve heard 20-something Shirin’s story before, but you haven’t. Written and directed by and starring newcomer Desiree Akhavan, ...

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 ...

“Appropriate Behavior” is a kind of Iranian American-bisexual “Annie Hall” crossed with an episode or two of HBO’s “Girls.” And, as the feature writing-directing-acting debut of the delightfully ...

When it comes to Brooklyn-set, female-led features at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Jenny Slate’s Obvious Child seemed to stir up the most attention, but for those looking a bit deeper there was ...

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 ...

The storm before the calm hits well into this film about a young Brooklyn woman in and (presumably) out of love. No spoiler this: In the first five minutes we learn that lovers Shirin (writer/director ...

“We met nine years ago when we made this short film together that she wrote, [for which] I did a little bit of everything,” Frugiuele told me in a joint interview alongside Akhavan recently in a Los ...

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 ...