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Accomplished director Atom Egoyan remade the 2003 French film Nathalie with Julianne Moore as a spouse suspecting her husband (Liam Neeson) of dishonest, and Amanda Seyfried as the opposite lady. Herodotus reported that every Persian royal or aristocratic man had several wives and concubines who got here to the husband on a effectively-regulated, turn by turn foundation. The Old Persian phrase for the harem is just not attested, however it may be reconstructed as xšapā.stāna (lit. In line with Sasanian legend, of all the Persian kings, Khosrow II was essentially the most extravagant in his hedonism. However, whereas the Sasanian kings had harems, girls in the Sassanid Empire generally didn't stay in seclusion; elaborate harems had been detested and appear to have been exceptions to the rule, which is illustrated by the fact that huge harems - once they occurred - have been abhorred by the public. The rising seclusion of women was illustrated by the power struggle between the Caliph Al-Hadi and his mom Al-Khayzuran, who refused to live in seclusion however as an alternative challenged the power of the Caliph by giving her own audiences to male supplicants and officials and thus mixing with men.