Atefeh Nikohl Boosheri , a 16 -year-old middle-class girl in Tehran, falls for a less-privileged classmate in this melodramatic debut from US-Iranian writer/director Maryam Keshavarz. She offers a revealing portrait of an underground youth scene (in which Gus Van Sant’s Milk is secretly dubbed into Farsi) but the twentysomething leads …
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