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A boy and a girl who already had some trouble with the Iranian justice will decide, once I got out of prison, to form a rock band. This activity is prohibited by the regime and they must seek other components trying not to be discovered. At the same time begin to plan your escape from the country that oppresses them through the purchase of fake passports. This would allow them to have even the hope of playing in Europe. But the documents is expensive and the risk that the police brutally interrupted their business is getting stronger.
There are movies that have a value that goes beyond denunciation of their artistic quality. But then there are films that retain their style beyond the wish to convey that message. What Barman Ghobadi is in the second category. Who has in mind the fact that Iranian cinema wasteland, repetitive scenes, dead time in terms of narrative (except in a few works by masters like Abbas Kiarostami) here has the opportunity to breathe new air. With great courage and personal risk Ghobadi has made a film without permission, has been unable to shoot on location sometimes bribing officials with an offer to dvd 'forbidden' (including those of his earlier films) and was thus able to offer a portrait of a hidden in Tehran where young people can try to resist as a theocratic regime in which the prohibition of any form of expression is repressed non-aligned. It is no coincidence that the script has participated in the company of the director, an American journalist Roxana Saberi.
She was arrested on the pretext of an accusation of spying, was released just two days before the screening of the film at Cannes. The regime has realized that, if not, the media echo chamber would have been too strong and that the echoes were captured by the 'dangerous opposition' of the young who want to express themselves with music. Why Persian cats may be forced to appear as living animals. But we must not forget that can (and one day they will) pull off the nails. Meanwhile Ghobadi had self-exile.
