Timely, solidly acted, and unabashedly earnest, Rosewater serves as an impressive calling card for first-time director Jon Stewart. Read critic reviews
Rosewater
2014, Drama, 1h 43m
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In June 2009, BBC journalist Maziar Bahari, an Iranian-born Canadian citizen, returned to his native country to interview Mir-Hossein Moussavi, the prime challenger to incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. When Moussavi's supporters protested Ahmadinejad's declaration of victory, Bahari smuggled footage of the riots to the BBC. He was soon arrested by the Revolutionary Guard and -- led by a man known only as "Rosewater" -- was interrogated and tortured for 118 days.
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Rating: R (Some Crude References|Language|Violent Content)
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Genre: Drama
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Original Language: English
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Director: Jon Stewart
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Producer: Scott Rudin, Jon Stewart, Gigi Pritzker
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Writer: Jon Stewart
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Release Date (Theaters): limited
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Release Date (Streaming):
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Box Office (Gross USA): $3.1M
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Runtime:
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Distributor: Open Road
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Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
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"Rosewater" is well acted and constructed, but it lacks the emotional punch one would expect from the source material.
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The story of Maziar Bahari's imprisonment begins in 2009 when Daily Show correspondent Jason Jones went to the politically torn country of Iran, to interview Bahari during the presidential elections. Bahari is an Iranian-Canadian journalist from Newsweek whose family had always been imprisoned for political and social taboos. The film shows the torment and utter agony Bahari was up against during his tenure in an Iranian prison. Read more at http://www.bluefairyblog.com/reviews/2015/8/8/rosewater
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A true story about how bearing witness in a totalitarian country can get you in to trouble. It was tense and dramatic and made all the more enthralling by it being a true story about human bravery in the face of tyranny.
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About ten years ago, I met a couple of French tourists who saw Jon Stewart buying diapers at a pharmacy. Now, the thing was, they knew he was famous but not what for. Today, the answer to that question gets a little more complicated with the release of Stewart's directorial debut "Rosewater" about Maziar Bahari(Gael Garcia Bernal), a journalist who is unceremoniously jailed and beaten, after being falsely accused by the Iranian authorities of being a spy, following the Iranian elections of 2009. What is most surprising with "Rosewater" is what Stewart manages to pull off visually, not just in the way that archival footage is combined with the ongoing drama but in the way that isolation is expressed, as Maziar is kept from communicating with the outside world, especially his very pregnant wife Paola(Claire Foy), and vice versa. And what the movie also makes perfectly clear, at least until Stewart does lay it on a little thick towards the end, is how the new forms of technology will aid dissent in countries that still rely on repressive methods that were old when the Spanish Inquisition were using them.
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