Rosewater (2014)
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Amir El-Masry
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Maziar Bahari
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4 years ago at Nov 25 14:38
This really intrigued me since it was written and directed by comedic newscaster Jon Stewart. I think he did an excellent job with this story. The acting is superb. There is a bit of dark humor that you can tell was part of what made this a part of Jon Stewart. This is a bit of a slow burner so don't expect a lot of action or anything like that. I have seen a few movies like this and always they a... read more
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When Maziar Bahari left London in June 2009 to cover Iran’s presidential election, he assured his pregnant fiancée, Paola, that he’d be back in just a few days, a week at most. Little did he know, as he kissed her good-bye, that he would spend the next three months in Iran’s most notorious prison, enduring brutal interrogation sessions at the hands of a man he knew only by his smell: Rosewater.
For the Bahari family, wars, coups, and revolutions are not distant concepts but intimate realities they have suffered for generations: Maziar’s father was imprisoned by the shah in the 1950s, and his sister by Ayatollah Khome
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Release date: 27 November 2014
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Best Films of 2014 (100 movies items)" Bernal does a great job in the lead, directed by TV host John Stewart. It's done well enough, and it's an important story; but it never gets out of the made-for-tv feel."
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BradWesley123's Movie Journal- March 2015 (27 movies items)" DVD- 1hr. 43min. First Viewing Rosewater is obviously well-intentioned, and that takes the movie surprisingly far, but there's not a whole lot new or inventive here. It's solidly made with a great deal of empathy, but it's just missing an urgency that would've made it vital viewing."
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Top Favorite Films of 2014 (50 movies items)"Directed by Jon Stewart Starring Jason Jones, Hannah Douglass, Bob Simon, Claire Foy, Gael Garcia Bernal, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Kim Bodnia, Dimitri Leonidas, Golshifteh Farahani, Haluk Bilginer, and Arian Moayed "
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