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Under the Skin of the City
Magnolia Pictures
MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring
Golab Adineh,
Mohammad Reza Forutan,
Baran Kosari,
Ebrahin Sheibani,
Mohsen Ghazi Moradi,
and
Homeira Riazi
An Iranian woman takes dramatic measures to save her home and family.
| GENRE(S): |
Foreign
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Rakhshan Bani Etemad
Farid Mostafavi
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Rakhshan Bani Etemad
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: March 16, 2004
Video: March 16, 2004
Theatrical: March 14, 2003
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
92 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
Iran |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
Farsi (with English subtitles) |
Original title "Zir-e Poost-e Shahr"

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
90
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
This splendid film is no mere polemic, for Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, often called the first lady of Iranian cinema, is above all an accomplished storyteller and dramatist who understands the evocative power of sound and image.

88
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
More a bleak docu-melodrama than an esoteric morality play.

83
Portland Oregonian
Kim Morgan
With understated skill and absolute authenticity, the film builds with enough layers that by its powerful ending, you'll feel as if you have been kicked in the stomach.

80
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
Bani-Etemad's generational melodrama observes a blue-collar dynastic collapse worthy of Lillian Hellman, but stays steadfastly fixed on the quotidian of Tehran life.

80
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
The real protagonist is the family itself -- a fragile, complex organism undermined by internal conflict and menaced by the cruelty and indifference of the society around them.

80
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
Under the Skin is distinguished, like so much contemporary Iranian cinema, by the way its striking visuals and strategic use of sound tell the underlying story.

80
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
Solidly made and sometimes quite moving chronicle of a working-class family in Tehran.

75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
This gritty drama doesn't rank with the greatest Iranian films, but its urban characters offer an interesting change from the nation's best-known productions, which generally center on rural subjects.

75
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Watching Tuba's proud girls disappear into anonymous clouds of chadors says more than any political diatribe could, and Bani-Etemad is wise enough to know it.

75
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
The plot has all the ingredients of a soap opera, but Bani-Etemad, who has been making movies since the '80s, is able to make it much more.

70
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
At times, Bani Etemad succeeds only too well at capturing the confusing rush of Adineh's family life--the film presents more subplots than it can follow thoroughly, until its final act snaps all that's come before into sharp focus.

70
TV Guide
Ken Fox
While far from her best work, this accessible, emotionally involving domestic drama nevertheless serves as a welcome introduction.

60
Film Threat
Tim Merrill
Fast-paced, at times even a bit frantic, Under the Skin of the City is above all a mother-and-son story.


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