Circumstance CD2
The movie follows a wealthy family in Iran. The daughter is in love with another girl, together they attend illicit parties and experiment with sex, drinking, and drugs. The brother returns home from drug rehab, renounces his former decadent life, and replaces his once obsessive practice of classical music with more destructive pursuits.
5 April 1982, Pocatello, Idaho, USA
1987, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
15 June 1951, Iran
15 January 1954
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 screenOctober 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...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.October 07, 2015
"Circumstance" reaffirms cultural stereotypes while serving up generous portions of liberal guilt.August 21, 2012
The content feels familiar, but the perspective is fresh.October 07, 2011
We never doubt the sincerity of the emotions on display, or of the foretaste Circumstance provides of a society on the brink of radical change.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.August 24, 2012
Keshavarz's film is both sensuous and audacious if a little uneven.September 30, 2011
[The] film is too much a wounded love story to slide into polemic.August 26, 2012
Crude and predictable but nevertheless affecting ...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.