Fresh
The content feels familiar, but the perspective is fresh.
Dave Calhoun, Time Out
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Circumstance
Overview
A wealthy Iranian family struggles to contain a teenager's growing sexual rebellion and her brother's newfound conservatism.
Director and cast
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Top critics, in their words
86%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Keshavarz, who was born in New York City and grew up in the U.S. and Iran, shows us how young people in Tehran get around the constrictive system...
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald
Fresh
We never doubt the sincerity of the emotions on display, or of the foretaste Circumstance provides of a society on the brink of radical change.
Peter Howell, Toronto Star
Fresh
About a sexy, frank and politically contentious Iranian film, two things can be known for a certainty: (a) It sure wasn't made in Iran and (b) It won't be shown there either.
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
Fresh
[The] film is too much a wounded love story to slide into polemic.
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post
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