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By Geoff Berkshire (602) for Metromix.com (1,085) on 24 Aug 2011

If that's Keshavarz's way of saying she'd like a Hollywood gig, she's proved herself worthy of an offer…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for New York Times (5,786) on 24 Aug 2011

Though it lacks the artful, headlong immediacy of The Circle and Offside, Jafar Panahi's films about women in Tehran - and the breakneck exuberance…

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By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 24 Aug 2011

Absorbing if too earnest chronicle of youth rebellion against the rigid and repressive social order of contemporary Iran…

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By John Anderson (1,358) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 24 Aug 2011

This is a movie about longing, desire, desperation and the abandonment of principle - quite a collection of themes, all universal…

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By Mark Jenkins (515) for NPR (1,713) on 24 Aug 2011

Circumstance is best during its simpler, more naturalistic moments…

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By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 23 Aug 2011

Here, love and attraction between two teenage girls put them on a collision course with Tehran society in general and one girl's troubled,…

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By David Fear (910) for Time Out (7,510) on 23 Aug 2011

The closer this parable inches toward tragedy, the more you can feel the gap between good intentions and generic exotica-grandstanding widening…

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By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 22 Aug 2011

Keshavarz's earnest, well-intentioned first feature on women's oppression in Iran has trouble resisting its own heavy hand…

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By Nick Schager (2,294) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Aug 2011

Since Mehran's embrace of hardline Islam is never dramatized or elaborated on in any insightful way…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 16 Aug 2011

Iranian fundamentalist vs. freedom-seeking sister in this ferocious battle of religious wills…

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By James Greenberg (88) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 29 Jul 2011

Overall this is an impressive debut from a filmmaker with something to say and the talent to say it…

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By Mohsen N (1) on 14 Jul 2011

A very intriguing look into the lives of two Iranian women and their hidden desires…

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By Sam Adams (514) for Philadelphia City Paper (235) on 09 Jul 2011

Perhaps it's unfair to compare Circumstance to the very different Persepolis, but it's hard not to drift off to Marjane Satrapi's more pungent…

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By Pamela S (79) on 29 Jun 2011

Saw this movie at Sundance. I was blown away! Probably the best movie I've seen at that film festival in the 3 years I've been going…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 23 Jun 2011

An engrossing Iranian film about the familial clash of values of a sister seeking freedom and pleasure and a brother who is zealot for Islamic…

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By Shelby B (62) on 06 Jun 2011

A classic story of forbidden love, in the context of both overt oppression (state/surveillance and cultural/religious), homophobia, and male…

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By Candace C (30) on 05 Jun 2011

Iranian girls are caught up in circumstances over which they have no control…

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By Matthew Sorrento (173) for Film International (130) on 18 May 2011

Nothing is Private would also suit Maryam Keshavarz's feature debut, though she chose Circumstance [to] reflect the factors surrounding her…

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By Joel G (229) on 16 May 2011

I know this was a favorite at Sundance but out of the thirteen films I saw this was of my least favorite…

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By Jonathan M (1,410) on 01 May 2011

Quite simply, one of the best films I've ever seen…

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