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Veracity is undermined by the very idea that the subjects somehow are actors in their own story -- and yet The Apple is still quite touching.
Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle
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The Apple
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After twelve years of imprisonment by their own parents, two Iranian sisters are finally released by social workers to face the outside world for the first time.
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Makhmalbaf elicits remarkably unaffected performances.
Lawrence Van Gelder, New York Times
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