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Rosewater

Drama

2014, Movie, 1h 43min

In 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was covering Iran's volatile elections for Newsweek. One of the few reporters living in the country with access to US media, he made an appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in a taped interview with comedian Jason Jones. The interview was intended as satire, but if the Tehran authorities got the joke they didn't like it - and it would quickly came back to haunt Bahari when he was rousted from his family home and thrown into prison.

Country: United States

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Reviews

Critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

All well and good—and, again, damn near unquestionably sincere...

Read full review at The A.V. Club

Critic Godfrey Cheshire

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...gripping, intelligent directorial debut of TV personality Jon Stewart, who also wrote the screenplay, based on Bahari’s post-prison memoir, “Then They Came For Me.”

Read full review at Roger Ebert

Critic Mark Kermode

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...Danish Kim Bodnia is the movie’s secret weapon as his tormentor, a tightly wound knot of fear and (self-)loathing whose fury toward his captive is fuelled by his own pathetically powerless circumstance.

Read full review at The Guardian

Critic Helen O'Hara

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Gripping, humane and lighter than it sounds, Stewart’s first foray into directing suggests that he was right to quit the day job.

Read full review at Empire

Critic Peter Bradshaw

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Stewart has created a humane black tragicomedy...

Read full review at The Guardian

Critic Marjorie Baumgarten

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...the comedian proves his dramatic chops.

Read full review at The Austin Chronicle

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Rosewater is a gripping drama based on the true story of Maziar Bahari, a London-based Iranian journalist who was detained and brutally interrogated in Iran for 118 days in 2009. Bahari was accused of spying and faced harsh treatment, including torture, while his pregnant fiancée waited anxiously for his release. Despite the odds against him, Bahari never lost hope and remained determined to survive and tell his story to the world. With a strong cast, including Gael García Bernal as Bahari, the film takes viewers on a powerful and emotional journey, shedding light on the dark realities of political oppression and the human spirit's unbreakable will to persevere.