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Tehran Taboo

2017

Ali Soozandeh

Animation

7.0

334

Animation. Drama In their desperate search for freedom and happiness, four young people from Tehran, Iran are forced to break the taboos of a restrictive, islamic society.

	Author	Review
United States	Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"It offers just enough distance to explore the highly charged theme of sexual and personal freedom in Iran without salaciousness."	POS
United Kingdom	Wendy Ide Screendaily	"Unlike the arresting animation, the narrative often resorts to broad brushstrokes to stress its points (...) [It] fizzes with energy and bad behaviour."	NEU
United States	Cary Darling Houston Chronicle	"None of this is revelatory - these issues have been addressed in Iranian films before - but it's still gripping (…) Rating: ★★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Godfrey Cheshire rogerebert.com	"Using skillful, involving storytelling and beautifully executed rotoscoped photography, director Ali Soozandeh creates a world of intersecting urban miseries and challenges (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Ben Kenigsberg The New York Times	"Subtlety and aesthetic elegance (...) are not among the film’s virtues. 'Tehran Taboo' aims to expose systemic hypocrisy; in that respect, it is brisk and bracing."	NEU
United States	J.R. Jones Chicago Reader	"It not only excels as social realism, it tells the story of a society so warped by Islamic fundamentalism that it's unable to process reality (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS

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