
Negar and Ashkan, two young Iranian songwriters, decide to set up an underground band and look for other musicians to join them, but the authorities keep putting a spanner in the works. Fed up with being hindered from expressing themselves, the two young people try to get documents to leave the country for Europe.... (Full plot summary below)
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Negar and Ashkan, two young Iranian songwriters, decide to set up an underground band and look for other musicians to join them, but the authorities keep putting a spanner in the works. Fed up with being hindered from expressing themselves, the two young people try to get documents to leave the country for Europe.
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| CultureCatchBrandon JudellNot as lyrically overwhelming as Ghobadi's previous works, A Time for Drunken Horses (2000) and Turtles Can Fly (2004), the politics of this offering more than make up for that lack. |
| Birmingham PostGraham YoungA fine, optimistic companion piece for the Irish film Once, which won Glen Hansard the best song Oscar in 2008. |
| Total FilmPhilip KempThe mid-section drags slightly, but the cumulative effect is powerful, revealing what it's like to live in a society where even well-behaved kids can be crushed by the dictates of arbitrary, heavy-handed authority. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzThere's a real life-threatening risk being in this pic. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrWhenever a band plays in “Persian Cats,’’ the director treats us to a fast, vibrant montage of Iranian faces and street scenes -- as if to say, look, this is who we REALLY are. |
| CompuserveHarvey S. KartenOf special interest to viewers who are into international politics or indie rock. |
| MovieFreak.comSara Michelle FettersShot on location, filled with real people portraying themselves, Ghobadi takes risks other filmmakers would run screaming from, his film oozing with a validity it never would have achieved otherwise. |
| Minneapolis Star TribuneColin CovertA vibrant, engaging portrait of a generation bursting with repressed creativity. |
| Washington PostAnn HornadayGhobadi has emerged as a filmmaker whose gift for poetic realism was only equaled by an unerring sense of precisely when and how to break the viewer's heart. |
| NYC Movie GuruAvi OfferGenuinely poignant, compelling and unflinchingly honest with just the right balance of dramatic tension and comic relief |