Best Foreign Movie and the Best Original Screenplay.
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For average Western viewers, accustomed to the negative stereotyping of Iranian males as pathologically patriarchal, thanks to the singular contribution of the popular movie, Not Without My Daughter, this movie presents a timely correction. Offering a more sympathetic portrayal of Iranian men, as well as Iranian women, it steers clear of any hints of male chauvinism and its dirty clutches of power and domination.
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I am impressed
not impressed by this film
but by western viewers
the movie itself has neither an interesting subject, nor special effect, nor sex and and
but,
it has something, that, I, always thought only Iranians would feel and understand
but
speaking to many western friends
I was really astonished they felt what makes this film so special
well, all not lost yet, shimmer of hope still there
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