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Unveiled

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Unveiled reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Drama  |  Foreign

Written by: Judith Kaufmann
Angelina Maccarone

Directed by: Angelina Maccarone

Release Date:
Theatrical: November 18, 2005
DVD: April 18, 2006

Running Time: 97 minutes, Color

Origin: Germany / Austria

Language(s): German / Persian / English

Summary

RATING: Not Rated

Starring Jasmin Tabatabai, NavĂ­d Akhavan, Bernd Tauber, Majid Farahat, Georg Friedrich, Atischeh Hannah Braun, Mikail Dersim Sefer, and Haranet Minlik

Originally "Unveiled" was titled "Fremde Haut" which means In Orbit -- the term officially used by the UN to refer to asylum-seekers who find themselves orbiting around planet Earth because they can actually find legal domicile nowhere at all. Fariba, prosecuted in Iran because of her love for a woman, flees to Germany. (Wolfe Releasing)

What The Critics Said

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88

TV Guide Ken Fox

Thanks largely to Tabatabai's superb performance, it's on this level that Maccarone's film is most affecting.

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70

The New York Times Dana Stevens

With its deliberately overexposed film stock and driving electronic score, Ms. Maccarone's film occasionally suffers from a self-conscious artiness, but at its center is an extraordinary performance by Ms. Tabatabai as Fariba, a young woman whose expectations have been lowered by a lifetime of systematic mistreatment but who still holds out hope for the possibility of both justice and love.

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63

New York Post V.A. Musetto

Tabatabai delivers a strong performance and the script, although not always plausible, touches on important issues like bias against gays and Muslims.

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63

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

The parts are more valuable than the whole in Angelina Maccarone's Unveiled.

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50

Variety Derek Elley

Several large leaps of faith take some of the dramatic steam out of Unveiled, an otherwise well-acted and accessible lesbian drama that also flirts with issues like loss of identity and anti-Muslim tensions.

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40

Village Voice David Ng

An Iranian version of "Boys Don't Cry," Unveiled overflows with sociopolitical outrage even if its portrayal of a gender-confused heroine is ultimately indecisive and laconic.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 9.0 (out of 10) based on 3 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

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