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07/12/02
The Apple (1998)
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Reviews Counted:19
Fresh:15
Rotten:4
Average Rating:7/10
Genre: Childrens
Reviews for The Apple
In its own quiet way, Makhmalbaf's auspicious feature debut echoes [a] sense of rebellion not only against such sexual discrimination, but also against all forms of inequality and injustice.
04/03/01
"About women's rights in a country where women are seen as inferior."
01/01/00
Samira Makhmalbaf was only 18 when she made The Apple, but it is a surprisingly mature, assured piece of work.
04/03/01
Es un cine fundamental, básico y humano que enriquece la diversidad que siempre deberían mostrarnos las pantallas.
03/16/05
Presents a severe critique of the continued shabby treatment of women in patriarchial societies.
08/21/02
Unusual and evocative in many different ways.
01/01/00
As that old axiom goes, truth is stranger than fiction. Unless, of course, the fiction in question is one that's based on some very strange truths.
04/03/01
This tiny, alternately simple and complex movie is fascinating on a number of levels.
04/03/01
Makhmalbaf's impeccable feature-film debut is a witty and precociously intelligent docudrama.
03/05/02
Makhmalbaf elicits remarkably unaffected performances.
04/03/01
A first-time feature from Samira Makhmalbaf, an Iranian filmmaker who mixes fact and fiction to riveting, if disturbing, effect.
04/03/01
Perplexing and provocative.
04/03/01
Veracity is undermined by the very idea that the subjects somehow are actors in their own story -- and yet The Apple is still quite touching.
04/03/01
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04/03/01
Top CriticA little bit of Hollywood might have spiced up this fascinating -- but maddeningly slow -- true story.
04/11/01
While the film is remarkable for what it does manage to show us...it didn't sufficiently get under the surface.
01/01/00
The film would be more effective if, instead of covering just one day, it focused on the enduring effects of the girls' isolation.
04/03/01
At once an effulgent exercise in life-affirmation and a bemusingly crude piece of exploitative filmmaking.
04/03/01
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