Secret Ballot (Subtitled) G
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DVD Details
- Rated: G
- Run Time: 2 hours, 3 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 7, 2003
- Originally Released: 2002
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Nassim Abdi | |
Performer: | Cyrus Ab, Youssef Habashi, Farrokh Sho & Gholbahar Janghali | |
Directed by | Babak Payami | |
Music by | Michael Galasso | |
Screenwriting by | Babak Karimi | |
Produced by | Babak Payami & Marco Muller | |
Director of Photography: | Farzad Jodat |
Entertainment Reviews:
Long, still vistas . . . nicely surreal . . . some hard questions about faith and democracy, law and lawlessness, acting for the common good.
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
...The landscape photography, by Farzad Jodat, is fully up to the high standards of the Iranian cinema, and there is always something pleasant to look at in the film...
New York Times
...Delightful....A work of effectively minimalist style....[The film] is funny, provocative, well-paced and leaves a memorable bittersweet aftertaste...
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 3/4 --
Slow, simple, quiet and intriguing. Payami investigates possibilities, and his curiosity carries us along.
UK Critic
Rating: 3/4 --
A beguiling, slow-moving parable about the collision of past and present on a remote seacoast in Iran.
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Globe and Mail
A psychic journey deep into the very fabric of Iranian ... life.
Washington Post
Rating: 3/4 --
Beautiful to watch and holds a certain charm.
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Miami Herald
Product Description:
Iranian-Canadian filmmaker Babak Payami (ONE MORE DAY) looks at the problems of bringing democracy to Iran in this political and cultural satire, which could almost be called "neo-surrealist" in tone. The film begins with a ballot box being dropped from an airplane onto a desert island off the coast of Iran, terrifying a soldier stationed there who thinks it's a bomb. Another soldier (Cyris Abidi) has orders to accompany the arriving agent who will collect the votes, and he's shocked to realize his charge is an educated, freethinking young woman (Nassim Abidi) from the city. During their long, argumentative day together, the pair run up against all sorts of reactions to this strange new electoral procedure, from fear, to jubilation, to utter indifference. Payami, working from an idea by Moshen Makhmalbaf (KANDAHAR), lets the action unfold in long takes, allowing Abidi to develop her character as more than just a symbol of progress as she patiently deals with the suspicious (and occasionally overexcited) island populace. A cautiously hopeful tale of democracy entering a restrictive society, SECRET BALLOT also serves as a sly commentary on the unconquerable cultural divide between Western and Middle-Eastern ways of thinking.
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- Sales Rank: 19,105
- UPC: 043396092204
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