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Circumstance CD1
The story of this movie focuses on an Indian girl from a wealthy family that has been in love with a young girl, to start together try many sacred things like, drinking, sex and drugs, then the family struggles to return this girl to the right way and get her out and her brother from the dangerous obsession.
5 April 1982, Pocatello, Idaho, USA
15 January 1954
15 June 1951, Iran
1987, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
August 26, 2012
Crude and predictable but nevertheless affecting ...
September 04, 2012
Takes an even-handed approach that never preaches, presenting a resonant side of Iran's society that we have never before seen on screen
August 24, 2012
Keshavarz's film is both sensuous and audacious if a little uneven.
September 16, 2011
Both Boosheri and Kazemy are newcomers, but their spirited, tender performances -- from the eroticism to the shame and the flights of freedom -- feel completely, devastatingly real.
August 28, 2012
Circumstance bravely depicts the political plight of independent young women in Iran, a timely and worthwhile subject somewhat let down by two-dimensional storytelling.
August 21, 2012
The content feels familiar, but the perspective is fresh.
October 07, 2015
"Circumstance" reaffirms cultural stereotypes while serving up generous portions of liberal guilt.
September 27, 2012
Circumstance may miss out on making a truly startling political point, but it is a thoroughly enjoyable and tautly executed tale of young love, forbidden fruit and the world previous generations leave behind for us.
October 07, 2011
About a sexy, frank and politically contentious Iranian film, two things can be known for a certainty: (a) It sure wasn't made in Iran and (b) It won't be shown there either.
October 13, 2011
Keshavarz, who was born in New York City and grew up in the U.S. and Iran, shows us how young people in Tehran get around the constrictive system...

