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- Summary: This powerful film about women under Islam features a young Iranian woman who hides her identity by dressing as a man, then becomes romantically involved with another young woman.
- Director: Maryam Shahriar
- Genre(s): Drama
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Positive: 4 out of 7
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Mixed: 3 out of 7
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Negative: 0 out of 7
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100Acted as a drama, paced like a ritual, filmed as a slice of rural Iranian life.
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75There’s little dialogue in this gem of a movie, but little is needed. Aman’s anguished face – which recalls Maria Falconetti in “The Passion of Joan of Arc” -- conveys all the information we need.
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60The filmmaker achieves the desired sense of remoteness and claustrophobic doom, and though the story could be told more economically, her slow approach conveys the distended chronology that attends an indentured servitude resembling slavery.
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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ThomasH.6Glacial pacing, exotic, sad and poor. Window into a strange and foreign land.
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