VEILED IMPORT.(Review) (movie review)

THE CHADOR IS A STRANGE GARMENT. A square of black fabric draped over a woman's head and falling to her ankles, this ancient covering, currently a symbol of Iran's revolution, has overtime served various ideologies. The shah banned it; the mullahs now enforce it. "Death out for a walk" was how Guy de Maupassant described the dark figures he saw moving through nineteenth-century Persian streets.

By most accounts, the chador is difficult to wear--held in place by a hand under the chin and perennially slipping. Though it allows women to mingle publicly with men, it is both ...

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