Secret Ballot (Subtitled) G
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DVD Details
- Rated: G
- Run Time: 2 hours, 3 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 7, 2003
- Originally Released: 2002
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Nassim Abdi | |
Performer: | Cyrus Ab, Youssef Habashi, Farrokh Sho & Gholbahar Janghali | |
Directed by | Babak Payami | |
Music by | Michael Galasso | |
Screenwriting by | Babak Karimi | |
Produced by | Babak Payami & Marco Muller | |
Director of Photography: | Farzad Jodat |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
A solid, well-formed satire.
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eFilmCritic.com
...SECRET BALLOT is an amusingly absurdist fable....It maintains a gently surreal atmosphere...
Total Film
Rating: A --
The sophistication of the Western democratic machinery seems absurd and its elaborate schemes for representation unreal by comparison.
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FilmFestivals.com
...The landscape photography, by Farzad Jodat, is fully up to the high standards of the Iranian cinema, and there is always something pleasant to look at in the film...
New York Times
A comedy that provides serious testament to the arduous, often dreary, always imperfect work of democracy.
Washington Post
A psychic journey deep into the very fabric of Iranian ... life.
Washington Post
Rating: 3/5 --
Payami tries to raise some serious issues about Iran's electoral process, but the result is a film that's about as subtle as a party political broadcast.
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BBC.com
Product Description:
Iranian-Canadian filmmaker Babak Payami (ONE MORE DAY) looks at the problems of bringing democracy to Iran in this political and cultural satire, which could almost be called "neo-surrealist" in tone. The film begins with a ballot box being dropped from an airplane onto a desert island off the coast of Iran, terrifying a soldier stationed there who thinks it's a bomb. Another soldier (Cyris Abidi) has orders to accompany the arriving agent who will collect the votes, and he's shocked to realize his charge is an educated, freethinking young woman (Nassim Abidi) from the city. During their long, argumentative day together, the pair run up against all sorts of reactions to this strange new electoral procedure, from fear, to jubilation, to utter indifference. Payami, working from an idea by Moshen Makhmalbaf (KANDAHAR), lets the action unfold in long takes, allowing Abidi to develop her character as more than just a symbol of progress as she patiently deals with the suspicious (and occasionally overexcited) island populace. A cautiously hopeful tale of democracy entering a restrictive society, SECRET BALLOT also serves as a sly commentary on the unconquerable cultural divide between Western and Middle-Eastern ways of thinking.
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- Sales Rank: 19,285
- UPC: 043396092204
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