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The Apple (Sib)

The Apple (Sib) (1999)

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Average Rating: 8.2/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 0

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Average Rating: 3.8/5
User Ratings: 975

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A documentary of an Iranian, impoverished and religious father who kept his twin daughters locked up at home for the first 12 years of their lives.

Unrated, 1 hr. 25 min.

Documentary, Drama, Kids & Family, Art House & International

Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Samira Makhmalbaf

Makhmalbaf Productions

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Critic Reviews for The Apple (Sib)

All Critics (28) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (16) | Rotten (4) | DVD (4)

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.

April 3, 2001 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
Peter Stack
San Francisco Chronicle
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This tiny, alternately simple and complex movie is fascinating on a number of levels.

April 3, 2001 Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee | Comment
Joe Baltake
Sacramento Bee
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Makhmalbaf elicits remarkably unaffected performances.

April 3, 2001 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
Lawrence Van Gelder
New York Times
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an allegory of Iran's longed-for emergence from repressive tradition into a more liberating modernity (especially for women).

July 1, 2010 Full Review Source: Little White Lies | Comment
Anton Bitel
Little White Lies

Es un cine fundamental, básico y humano que enriquece la diversidad que siempre deberían mostrarnos las pantallas.

March 16, 2005 Full Review Source: Uruguay Total | Comment
Enrique Buchichio
Uruguay Total

Presents a severe critique of the continued shabby treatment of women in patriarchial societies.

August 21, 2002 Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice | Comment
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice

Makhmalbaf's impeccable feature-film debut is a witty and precociously intelligent docudrama.

March 5, 2002 Full Review Source: Sight and Sound | Comment
John Mount
Sight and Sound

A little bit of Hollywood might have spiced up this fascinating -- but maddeningly slow -- true story.

April 11, 2001 Full Review Source: E! Online | Comment
E! Online

At once an effulgent exercise in life-affirmation and a bemusingly crude piece of exploitative filmmaking.

April 3, 2001 Full Review Source: San Francisco Examiner | Comment
Wesley Morris
San Francisco Examiner

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.

April 3, 2001 Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | Comment
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

Samira Makhmalbaf was only 18 when she made The Apple, but it is a surprisingly mature, assured piece of work.

April 3, 2001 Full Review Source: Film Journal International | Comment
Doris Toumarkine
Film Journal International
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The Apple it's one of the exemples that show to us how terrific is the Iran cinema.

January 5, 2012
Lucas Martins
Lucas Martins

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The Apple it's one of the exemples that show to us how terrific is the Iran cinema.

January 5, 2012
Lucas Martins
Lucas Martins

Super Reviewer

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Foreign Titles

  • The Apple (UK)
  • La Pomme (FR)
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