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Genre : Drama, Foreign Release Date : August 26, 2011 MPAA Rating : R Duration : 106 minute(s) Production Budget : -Studio : Roadside Attractions Official Site : http://www.takepart.com/circumstance Reviews Rate :
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well-intentioned first feature on women's oppression in Iran
by Melissa Anderson [Village Voice ]
the way Circumstance clumsily negotiates through middlebrow melodramatic territory, regardless of whether the film focuses on sapphic desire or simply conflates it with other subversive activities
by David Fear [Time Out New York ]
stirringly sensual
Review rate : A-
by Lisa Schwarzbaum [Entertainment Weekly ]
is an amazingly accomplished and complex first feature from Iranian-American writer-director Maryam Keshavarz
by James Greenberg [Hollywood Reporter ]
a new way of showing stories about young Iranians even as it stumbles and falls over myriad narrative miscalculations
by Robert Koehler [Variety ]
by David Fear [Time Out New York ]
