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  • Summary: Women Without Men, an adaptation of Shahrnush Parsipur's magic realist novel, is Iranian artist Shirin Neshat's first feature length film. The story chronicles the intertwining lives of four Iranian women during the summer of 1953; a cataclysmic moment in Iranian history when an American led, British backed coup d'état brought down the democratically elected Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, and reinstalled the Shah to power. (IndiePix Films) Expand
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  1. Stronger on beautiful imagery than on narrative flow.
  2. 80
    Neshat employs dialogue that is often didactic, but that weakness is forgiven in the face of stellar acting from the ensemble and gorgeously composed and shot images.
  3. Reviewed by: Richard Nilsen
    80
    It seduces us with imagery and metaphor.
  4. Has compelling stretches, but the film's formal concerns overwhelm the storytelling.

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