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Babak Shokrian's bitter sweet film on the Iranian diaspora

May 8,
The Iranian

I have just previewed an opening of America So Beautiful in Paris UGC Cinema.

To this date, rarely has any Iranian movie caught my attention or moved me as a truly cinematographic experience. Babak Shokrian's directorial début has all the ingrediants that make up both an entertaining and thought-provoking movie.

I could not help sit through the whole film hoping to see more.

This is what I call a movie that is for the first time, in the iranian category with a comprehensive dialogue and a good plot supported by excellent professional actors-- far from the great Abbas Kiarostami and his metaphorical abstractions accessible only to the cultural elite.

This movie tries to draw a picture of a generation which shortly before and shortly after the revolution had to struggle to survive. Shokrian's early film influences from Scorcese and Elia Kazan are apparent, in some scenes and partic