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Title: fairly awful
Review: The basic story with this film is that it was underwritten and countenanced by the Iranian government, but when it came time to take a look at what the director had wrought, the officials blanched, and to this day the film has only been shown in Tehran in a extensively butchered edition. But it has been shown there; hence the "Banned in Iran" brag on the cover is only partially true.Well, on the one hand, it does offer a look at something few Westerners could even imagine: what day-to-day life is like in an Iranian women's prison. Come on: how many of you could imagine what the inside of one looked like?Yet the film is stiff and boring. The direction is heavy-handed and inept, the story uninteresting, and the characters, only sketchily developed. On the whole, when you finish the movie, you'll probably wish you had stopped it 10 minutes in. Everything after that doesn't add much.
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