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  • 2018
  • Not Rated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 36 m
  • 2018
  • Not Rated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 36 m

Summary In the bustling metropolis of Tehran, avoiding prohibitions has become an everyday sport and breaking taboos can be a means of personal emancipation. Nevertheless, women invariably end up on the bottom rung of the social order. A young woman needs an operation to “restore” her virginity. A judge in the Islamic Revolutionary Court exhorts...

Directed By: Ali Soozandeh

Written By: Grit Kienzlen, Ali Soozandeh

  • 2018
  • Not Rated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 36 m
  • 2018
  • Not Rated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 36 m

Tehran Taboo

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
74
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 10 User Ratings
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Summary In the bustling metropolis of Tehran, avoiding prohibitions has become an everyday sport and breaking taboos can be a means of personal emancipation. Nevertheless, women invariably end up on the bottom rung of the social order. A young woman needs an operation to “restore” her virginity. A judge in the Islamic Revolutionary Court exhorts...

Directed By: Ali Soozandeh

Written By: Grit Kienzlen, Ali Soozandeh

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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75% Positive
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25% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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6 Reviews
25% Mixed
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0% Negative
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88
Feb 14, 2018
The film is full of astute, and poetically staged, critiques of the parallel worlds resulting from Iran's police state.
By Diego Semerene FULL REVIEW
80
Oct 4, 2018
The script crackles with such bleak little jokes like this, relieving the tension in a work that could otherwise prove overwhelmingly depressing and borderline melodramatic.
By Leslie Felperin FULL REVIEW
80
Mar 11, 2018
That the film is animated, yet feels so thoroughly real, is a testament to its vivid use of rotoscoping as well as a solid script by director Ali Soozandeh, an Iranian expatriate.
By Gary Goldstein FULL REVIEW
75
Feb 15, 2018
It’s a more somber companion to Marjane Satrapi’s 2007 film “Persepolis,” which explored life under the Iranian Revolution with dark humor: Here, the laughter’s mostly a prelude to tears.
By Sara Stewart FULL REVIEW
75
Feb 14, 2018
Using skillful, involving storytelling and beautifully executed rotoscoped photography, director Ali Soozandeh creates a world of intersecting urban miseries and challenges.
By Godfrey Cheshire FULL REVIEW
60
Oct 8, 2018
The characters and plotting tend to be a little schematic, but just because the trajectories of the women’s narratives are predictable, it doesn’t follow that the story lacks power. On the contrary – this is fearless, potent storytelling.
By Wendy Ide FULL REVIEW
60
Feb 14, 2018
While its frank approach is refreshing, there is a sense of too much.
By Deborah Young FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 10 User Ratings
6.6
70% Positive
7 Ratings
10% Mixed
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20% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 10 User Ratings
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70% Positive
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10% Mixed
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20% Negative
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Production Company Little Dream Entertainment, Coop99 Filmproduktion, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), ARTE, Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, Schleswig-Holstein Film Commission, Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF), Österreichisches Filminstitut, Filmstandort Austria (FISA), Filmfonds Wien, Hessen Film & Medien, Pixeltruck
Release Date Feb 14, 2018
Duration 1 h 36 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.arpselection.com/category/tous-nos-films/drame/teheran-tabou-405.html
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Awards

Cannes Film Festival
• 2 Nominations
Jerusalem Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Montréal Festival of New Cinema
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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