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Word: mohammakhani (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1996-1996
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...Academy screening committee is in for a treat, for the film is fresh and beguiling. Seven-year-old Razieh (Aida Mohammakhani) is determined to buy a pretty white "dancing" goldfish she saw in a nearby shop. Reluctantly, her mother gives Razieh a 500-toman note, but the little girl loses the money. It has fallen into a sewer grate, tantalizingly out of reach. In dramatizing her efforts to get the money back, the film shows that no one can want anything as much as a child does. No one can be so desperate, endearing, selfish. Razieh is a maven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: BALLOON STORY | 2/12/1996 | See Source »

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