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Dir: Samira Makhmalbaf. Iran-France. 2003. 106minsAlthough dialogue-heavy longueurs that are endemic to Iranian cinema will make Samira Makhmalbaf s film - which won the Jury Prize at this year s Cannes - trying for some, adepts will welcome it with open arms. It is filmed in traditional Makhmalbafian family style, in which socio-political debate replaces conventional psychological realism. But here, as in Makhmalbaf s earlier films, The Apple and Blackboards, the rhetoric is always leavened with off-beat, even surrealist humour. Even better, the dialogue, revealing as it will be for Western audiences, is eventually redeemed and transcended by the powerfully expressive images that the films of Samira and her father, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, have become known for.As always, Makhmalbaf s focus is riveted on the immediate present, in this case on a post-Taliban Afghanistan in which girls are allowed to attend school for the first time. Although her previous films have largely kept their narrative distance, here she focuses closely on one of these girls, the ambitious Noqreh Rezaie , who decides she wants to bec stanley cup ome the president of Afghanistan. stanley cup At first this goal is treated humourously, by both the other characters and the director, but after a while we almost come to believe in this independent-minded young woman who is supremely proficient a stanley uk t skirting the restrictions of her religiously-observant father. As the film continues, alas, the overwhelming horror of the realities of presen Dsfm CineEurope s mass appeal
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