A Simple Wedding

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Format:  DVD
item number:  739WW
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DVD Details

  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: June 9, 2020
  • Originally Released: 2018
  • Label: Breaking Glass

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 4
Rating: 4/5 -- Though the story ... doesn't dig into the patriarchal aspects of marriage, the romantic comedy A Simple Wedding does explore the conflict between cultural perceptions of love and the greater significance of philautia ... Full Review
Elements of Madness
Feb 11, 2020
Rating: 4/5 -- A Simple Wedding is a wonderful peek into one Iranian family's experience choosing to live with varying degrees of assimilation, while celebrating their own cultural traditions. Full Review
AWFJ Women on Film
Feb 13, 2020
Rating: 4/5 -- Sweet culture-clash romcom upends stereotypes; drugs, sex. Full Review
Common Sense Media
Feb 26, 2020
Rating: 6/10 -- Another look at a wedding and how it can go so wrong. Worth seeing to view the uniqueness of Shohreh Aghdashloo. Full Review
jackiekcooper.com
Jun 11, 2020
Rating: 2.5/5 -- A Simple Wedding is never quite as complex as the title suggests. Yet its easy charms and efforts to revise, rather than rewrite, the book of rom-com love make it worth the RSVP. Full Review
Austin Chronicle
Feb 13, 2020
This hilarious yet sincere dramedy questions how our identities are forged through culture and society. Full Review
Film School Rejects
Oct 18, 2018
The film's second act ends too soon leaving an overlong third act more focused on the predictable romance between Alex's divorced mother and Nousha's visiting uncle than on the Nousha-Alex dynamic. Full Review
Los Angeles Times
Feb 13, 2020

Description by OLDIES.com:

Nousha wants to marry the perfect Persian husband for her perfect Persian family. But her plans change when she falls in love with an eccentric artist. When her traditional parents discover the two living together, they insist they get married. After reluctantly agreeing, the families come together for a big wedding, but buried family wounds resurface, and the couples relationship is tested.

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  • UPC: 850010363349
  • Shipping Weight: 0.16/lbs (approx)
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