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A wealthy Iranian family struggles to contain a teenager's growing sexual rebellion and her brother's dangerous obsession.
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| San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonThis movie doesn't work unless the central relationship between Atafeh and Shireen works. It does, beautifully; whether together in a nightclub or alone in a bedroom, Boosheri and Kazemy find a delicacy and sensitivity that reinforces, not diminishes, their strength. |
| Killer Movie ReviewsAndrea Chasea beautifully constructed film that is as gritty as the subject matter, and as lyrical as the redemption and the peace its characters all seek. |
| Boston HeraldJames VerniereWhat is it like to be gay in Iran, where President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claims homosexuality does not exist? |
| Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerDespite its arty veneer and its ostensibly political edge, Circumstance seems more interested in titillation than revelation. |
| New York PostV.A. MusettoThere are superb performances by Iranian-Canadian Nikohl Boosheri as Atafeh, the more rebellious of the two women, and French-born Sarah Kazemy as the less-privileged Shireen. |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsLaura CliffordCinematographer Brian Rigney Hubbard ("Tanner Hall") frames many of his shots with doorways, either with a character point of view observing from or his camera observing through, evoking the lines which characters may or may not cross. |
| Philadelphia City PaperSam AdamsPerhaps it's unfair to compare Circumstance to the very different "Persepolis," but it's hard not to drift off to Marjane Satrapi's more pungent and personally inflected evocation of the same terrain, in which the characters are as vivid as their surroundings. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyAbsorbing if too earnest chronicle of youth rebellion against the rigid and repressive social order of contemporary Iran. |
| CompuserveHarvey S. KartenIranian fundamentalist vs. freedom-seeking sister in this ferocious battle of religious wills. |
| Washington ExaminerKelly Jane TorranceLuckily, Circumstance is stunning, one worth watching purely for the drama. |
