Woman and Child
In Saeed Roustaee’s ‘Woman and Child’, a young widow loses control when her son dies, in a well-made, well-acted and unrestrained Iranian melodrama gauged primarily to local audience tastes.
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Author: Deborah Young
It Was Just an Accident
Jafar Panahi has never been more explicit in denouncing the torture political prisoners are subjected to in Iran, or the furious longing for revenge that haunts the state’s victims, than in ‘It Was Just an Accident’.
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The Secret Agent
A dazzling if confusing thriller set in 1977 Brazil during the worst years of the dictatorship, ‘The Secret Agent’ finds actor Wagner Moura embroiled in a deadly cat-and-mouse game with the corrupt police of Recife.
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The Little Sister
A devout young Muslim woman struggles to reconcile faith with being lesbian in Hafsia Herzi’s ‘The Little Sister’, celebrating the LGBTQIA culture in Paris in its many aspects as it explores how religion and sexuality shape self-identity.
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