Round 9: Tossup 18

An old widow from this country uses her inheritance to buy fancy household items, but has them moved to a beach, in the last segment of the anthology The Day I Became a Woman. In 2020, an actress-turned-director from this country accused a male director of filming her without her consent, taking credit for her own footage, (15[1])and raping her. In a film set in this country, a heroin addict hallucinates that his wife has been reincarnated as a sex worker’s cat. Before her 1967 death at age 32 in a car accident, a poet from this country shot her only documentary, The (*) House is Black, (10[1])in a leper colony. An American director with heritage from this country doubled for the lead actress in skateboarding scenes in a 2014 film shot in California but set in this country’s fictional ghost town “Bad City;” that film is the “vampire Western” A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. For 10 points, name this country whose revolution forms the backdrop of Marjane Satrapi’s film Persepolis. ■END■

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