‘The Friend’s House Is Here’ Review: The Regime Threatens Two Underground Artists’ Friendship in a Fizzy, Defiant Iranian Drama
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Smuggled out of Iran on a hard drive, Maryam Ataei and Hossein Keshavarz’s film combines the daring of Jafar Panahi with the energy of "Frances Ha." The Iranian government has long maintained a rather trigger-happy approach to censorship, to put it mildly. It stands to reason that the Islamic Republic would only tighten its grip in response to the largest civilian uprising since the 1979 revolution — a regime-threatening movement that has resulted in the murders of at least 6,000 civilians
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