The Green Wave

2012

The Green Wave

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The Green Wave is a powerful film documenting the populist protests in Iran following the suspicious victory of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over progressive candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi in the Iranian presidential elections on June 12, 2009. Cell phone videos posted on the internet, Twitter messages, as well as animated blog posts and interviews with prominent human rights advocates and exiled Iranians bear witness to the brutal attacks by government militia in their efforts to squelch the protests that followed. The Green Wave is a highly contemporary chronicle of the Green Revolution, and a memorial for all of those who believed in freedom and lost their lives for it. -- (C) Official Site

Cast

Pegah Ferydoni
Navid Akhavan
Shirin Ebadi
Payam Akhavan
Mitra Khalatbari
Mohsen Kadivar
Mehdi Mohseni
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  • It offers a rare glimpse into the insurgents' long-held hopes for reform. This green wave, as a blogger remarks, is a tidal wave.

    August 24, 2012 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…

    Peter Rainer

    Christian Science Monitor
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  • A wrenching but illuminating look at what actually happened during Iran's Green Revolution in 2009-10.

    August 23, 2012 | Rating: 3.5/4

    Tom Keogh

    Seattle Times
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  • For all its omissions and problems, "The Green Wave" communicates certain basic truths effectively: Many Iranians want their voices to be heard and their votes to count.

    August 16, 2012 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

    Rachel Saltz

    New York Times
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  • By airing an impassioned chorus of voices ranging from lawyers to religious clerics, the film argues that the 2009 protests were simply preparing the way for a larger populist movement that has yet to crest.

    August 14, 2012 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

    R. Emmet Sweeney

    Time Out
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  • [Shows] us a moment in history that reveals more about itself each time it is examined.

    August 9, 2012 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

    Kenneth Turan

    Los Angeles Times
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  • The movie shows what happened, but it also conveys what it felt like to travel from euphoria to despair in the space of a few weeks.

    August 9, 2012 | Full Review…

    Ella Taylor

    NPR
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  • Aug 19, 2012
    As an examination into the events leading up to and following the 2009 Iranian national elections, "The Green Wave" takes a more emtional route than an informational one. Overall, it is not as insightful as it could have been, although it does a good job of bringing up some of the political shenanigans of the ruling party. Along these same lines, more could have been done here to probe the country's arcane political structure of a usually passively repressive regime that holds elections as a form of show for critics, both internally and internationally.(All of which makes the political organizing that much more brave.) Some of that probably has to do with relying so much on anonymous blog posts and twitter feeds and I am not sure we are at a point where we can rely on them as a source material for a documentary. What speaks to me more than anything else here is the invaluable cell phone footage, capturing everything from the rallies to post election brutality. Of the animated footage, it is mostly neither here nor there, but there are some images of torture that I will be unable to shake off for a long while that just as much reminds me of the work of Frank Miller.
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