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Limited Release: Apr 06, 2001; Rated: Unrated; Length: 78 Minutes; Genres: Drama, Foreign Language; With: Fatemeh Cherag Akhar, Azizeh Sedighi and Shabnam Toloui
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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
In the most powerful of this Iranian film's episodes, a woman (Shabnam Toloui) pedals a bicycle along a sunstruck ribbon of oceanfront sidewalk. She is surrounded by other women, but they are merely racing, and she is flying -- in escape from her own life, as the camera zooms and swirls around her to suggest a desperate passage to a new world. This episode erupts with a lyric fury. The other two segments are more conventional, yet they add up to a vision of an Iran whose women might be leaping from the 19th century to the 21st. A-
Posted Apr 27, 2001
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