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 ...

“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 ...

Appropriate Behavior, a film released in 2015, features a compelling story that revolves around a girl named Shirin. She struggles against societal pressures that force her to suppress her true self, ...

The delightful byproduct of living in a post-Girls pop-culture-verse is that even if you don’t care for Lena Dunham, or if you find her creative output too preciously self-effacing (or self-aware, or ...

While new faces in cinema are a dime a dozen, a combination of freshness and competence is more difficult to find. But Desiree Akhavan’s feature debut is yet another hands-down success from a ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Remember the name Desiree Akhavan. You’re going to be hearing it a lot in the future. She's the writer, director and star of "Appropriate Behavior," which has drawn comparisons to the television show ...

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 ...

Appropriate Behavior takes place in the hipster scene of Brooklyn, NYC and looks into the of life Shirin: a bi-sexual, Iranian-American who hasn't come out to her traditional Persian family. Priscilla ...