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Rosewater

2014

Jon Stewart

Gael García Bernal, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Kim Bodnia, Dimitri Leonidas ...

5.5

484

Drama Based of a true story about a journalist who gets detained and brutally interrogated in prison for 118 day. The journalist Maziar Bahari was blindfolded and interrogated for 4 months in Evin prison in Iran, while the only distinguishable feature about his captor is the distinct smell of rosewater. An interview and sketch that Maziar did with a journalist on The Daily show was used as evidence that Maziar was a spy and in communication ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Scott Foundas Variety	"A solid, powerfully acted political drama about human endurance in the face of ideological oppression."
		Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"Jon Stewart's debut feature is capable, but lacks urgency."
		Eric Kohn IndieWire	"[It] suffers from the director's underwritten screenplay and several misconceived narrative devices (...) But it's also so committed to a good-natured attitude (...) that the many shortcomings register as inoffensively well-intentioned rather than exclusively shallow."

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