Before the Revolution
Before the Revolution
| 01 January 2013 (USA)
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A documentary thriller describing the last days of the Israeli community in Tehran, on the eve of the Islamic Revolution in 1979. The director, whose family was in Tehran at the time, uses rare archive materials to illustrate how thousands of Israelis, who enjoyed unusual affinity with the Shah's regime, wake up one morning to find their paradise vanished.

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Thehibikiew

Not even bad in a good way

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Chirphymium

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

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ChicDragon

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

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Hadrina

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

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