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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781565804418
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 1565804414
Label: Irmovies.Com
Manufacturer: Irmovies.Com
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Irmovies.Com
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 10, 2005
Running Time: 105 minutes
Sales Rank: 56895
Studio: Irmovies.Com
Theatrical Release Date: 2003
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Quite funny and entertaining, but has some negatives
This is a movie of many contrasts:
1. Most of the story is an absolutely delightful
romantic comedy. Near the end it turns into a melodrama.
The conclusion is somewhat forced; I felt let down by it.
2. The actor and actresses that play Donya, the Hadji, and the
Hadji's wife, are terrific. Their performances are absolutely
natural and life-like. It's difficult to think of anyone
else playing their roles quite as well. Hadji's wife (Gohar
Kheyrandish) puts on a particularly brilliant performance.
Everyone else is horribly bad. Hadji's son and daughter and
Donya's aunt and cousin give the impression that they
were grabbed off the street and brought into the studio in
the last minute to fill their roles without much rehearsal,
direction or practice. Donya's aunt appears to be on stage in
body, but not in spirit. Donya's cousin, in a few scenes that he
appears, gives the impression that he has no clue of what the
rest of the movie is about. Near the end of the movie, Hadji's
daughter, Tahereh, refers to her own sister as "Tahereh"
instead of the correct "Reyhaneh". You'd think that someone
would have caught this during the production.
3. The film music by Alireza Lachini is creative, fitting
and beautiful.
4. The English subtitles are mostly adequate but I wish they
had been reviewed by a native English speaker for correctness,
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