Circumstance- Movie review

Directed By: Maryam Keshavarz

Written By: Maryam Keshavarz

Cast: Nikohl Boosheri, Sarah Kazemy, Reza Sixo Safai, Soheil Parsa, Nasrin Pakkho, Sina Amedson, Keon Mohajeri

Rating: ****

Circumstance is really a stunning representation of contemplative women world struggling to find their freedom and independence from the male CWP. Directed by Maryam Keshavarz, has done brilliant job in casting and outlining the new definition of love and romance with creatively new features two of the strongest performances of the festival in Sarah Kazemy and  Nikohl Boosheri. Both perform young, sensuous and liberated women living in an Iran determined to be socially suppressed and downgraded by other developed societies. The lead of this movie Shireen (roll played Kazemy) is the daughter of super intelligent writer who also outrages as rebellion long since disappeared, the young woman taken in by her best friend Atafeh’s (Boosheri) family. Atafeh’s a talented musician and diligent student, eager to be playing with that girl so as to explore their feeling to the fullest.

But to the surprise of all Shireen has to offer as much, and then some. After few days of long intimacy both of them know the  each other’s emotion, sensuos feeling points, bodies, and their romance triggers ver well. But this does  not seem to be forced and unconventional, kudos to  both to both the  young performers who made the scenes look very natural and without any over-act or unpredictable  reality and the confident framing of Keshavarz and his cinematographer Brian Rigney Rubbard.

Punk rock and club music populate the film, adding edge to a common story. The color tone goes from hot to cold from scene to scene, never feeling out of place or abrupt. The plot moves calm and cooly, a deliberatey-paced slow burn that brings all of the issues to the surface deep into the third act without ever patronizing the viewer.

The movie continues to explore the horizon of their feelings with some new and a blend of conventional unacceptable features that they have to hide from the society. Mehran (Reza Sixo Safai), Atafeh’s ex-drug addict brother, becomes more  religious. He then starts forcing both of them to follow the conventional releigion and become more spiritually pure by giving up their wrong deeds and even confessing the same. 
Verdict: Shaan