Desiree Akhavan on Appropriate Behaviour (Q&A)

The actor-writer-director discusses the making of her comedy about a bisexual Iranian-American woman struggling to negotiate her troubled love life.

Desiree Akhavan, the writer, director and star of Appropriate Behaviour (2014), discusses the making of her comedy. She talks about comparisons to Woody Allen and Lena Dunham, and the need for LGBT films that speak to different experiences, while executive producer Olivier Kaempfer reveals how he pitched the film to get it made.