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By Joe Neumaier (1,294) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 14 Aug 2013

Farahani — seen in “Body of Lies” and “Chicken With Plums” — is equally vibrant in a performance, and a film, that dares us to listen…

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By Eric Monder (171) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 14 Aug 2013

What might have impressed on the stage-an attenuated monologue by the heroine-seems forced in the confined space of the dreary one-room bedroom set…

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By Gary Goldstein (1,089) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 14 Aug 2013

It's the flesh-and-blood lead performance by Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani as a profoundly conflicted Muslim wife and mother that seals…

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By Farran Smith Nehme (295) for New York Post (6,650) on 14 Aug 2013

Farahani determinedly underplays her character, and is often very touching…

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By Mike D'angelo (730) for AV Club (2,778) on 13 Aug 2013

There’s only so much anyone can do with a conceit that amounts to a movie-length speech delivered to a coma patient…

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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 13 Aug 2013

The camera observes, quietly. There is a stillness, not only in the images, but in the air itself…

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By David Fear (910) for Time Out (7,510) on 12 Aug 2013

Better to think of this as a star vehicle for Farahani, who almost single-handedly carries the film; the range the Iranian actor displays here…

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By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 12 Aug 2013

The more typical approach transforms the material, and not for the better—rather than a revelation about how it feels to live her life, this…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for The New York Times (9,847) on 12 Aug 2013

Mr…

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By Neil Young (78) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 12 Aug 2013

A luminous central performance from Golshifteh Farahani distinguishes an ambitious if somewhat monotonously wordy adaptation of a prize-winning…

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By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 12 Aug 2013

For much of The Patience Stone, Farahani is the movie, and as she shifts from fear to despair to anger to emotions she’d never previously…

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By Alissa Simon (80) for Variety (12,700) on 11 Aug 2013

Sensual and horrifying, The Patience Stone plays like a mesmerizing, modern take on the tales of Scheherazade and a parable on the suffering…

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By Susan F (91) on 11 Aug 2013

Talking to a paralyzed man who doesn't talk back-or as this story literally suggests: talking to a stone-certainly would never change anything…

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By Pasha A (165) on 10 Aug 2013

My Favorite One of the bests of Golshifteh. a decent film with a good scenario and impressive acting. My Favorite Line…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 07 Aug 2013

The great Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani delivers what will doubtless be the year's most riveting series of monologues…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 30 Jul 2013

An astonishing film about an Afghan woman's close-encounter with sex, power, and female desire after a loveless marriage and years of oppression…

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By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Apr 2013

While Atiq Rahimi's film may peel away the many layers of its female lead like an onion, the end result is still just an onion…

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By Aditi J (7) on 16 Apr 2013

La pietra paziente è qualla a cui noi scegliamo di raccontare I nostri più profondi segreti, paure, difficoltà..essa se ne carica e finisce…

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By Nata K (8) on 09 Apr 2013

I loved the film. Interesting, great acting, makes to think…

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By Simon Miraudo (882) for Quickflix (709) on 24 Mar 2013

The only ferociousness comes from Farahani... She gives The Patience Stone its gravitas…

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