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...Remaining Iranian dailies, all linked to hard-line religious parties...
...Iranian reform newspapers shut by conservative-leaning courts last week...
...Apple was a quiet Iranian film, released last year at the New York Film Festival. The documentary about twin 12-year old girls, imprisoned in their home from birth, took the world by surprise. The girls' father, their malevolent "protector," contends in the film that he is shielding his daughters from the forbidden fruit that will lure them away from the right path. The twins flounder, so developmentally and emotionally stunted that they can barely speak...
There are people whose spirit is so gracious and capacious that it is a privilege to be in their company. Such a one is Mohammad, a blind Iranian boy played--no, inhabited--by Mohsen Ramezani in Majid Majidi's enthralling pastorale The Color of Paradise...
...past decade, Iran has produced many lovely, probing films about children, but none so emotionally volcanic or full of convulsive incident. The Color of Paradise could be called the first Iranian action movie if it weren't so much more than that: artfully simple, beautifully observant of man and nature. This miniature epic is a film that, like its young hero, will enrich those who peer into its poignant heart...