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Rosewater

2014 · 103 min

A tense, claustrophobic plunge into unjust captivity, leavened by flickers of gallows humor and a stubborn will to endure.

Directed by
Jon Stewart
Genres
Drama
Starring
Gael García Bernal, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Kim Bodnia
Overview
In 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was covering Iran's volatile elections for Newsweek. One of the few reporters living in the country with access to US media, he made an appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in a taped interview with comedian Jason Jones. The interview was intended as satire, but if the Tehran authorities got the joke they didn't like it - and it would quickly came back to haunt Bahari when he was rousted from his family home and thrown into prison.

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Directed by
Jon Stewart
Genres
Drama
Starring
Gael García Bernal, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Kim Bodnia
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Tone
  • tensestrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • survival
  • justice
  • politics
  • identity
Places
  • prison
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror3
Humour3
Realism8
Romance2
Tension7
Darkness7
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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103 min
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