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A few years ago, I reviewed The Big Sick and pondered the possibility of Muslim filmmakers gaining an identity in Western cinema like other ethnic and religious minorities have before them. It seems to be happening now Desirée Akhavan’s bisexual romance Appropriate Behavior, Ana Lily Amirpour’s vampire movie A Girl
As vividly as Maryam Keshavarz portrays the country of her heritage, she is unable to return there her first feature, "Circumstance," about sexual desire between two girls in Iran, won her her first audience award at Sundance but also got her banned from the country.
Let nobody say writer-director Maryam Keshavarz, whose film won the audience prize at Sundance, doesn t know how to start a movie. The first time we see Leila, her alter ego in the autobiographical, warm-hearted, personal, funny but also somewhat chaotic "The Persian Version," she s walking across the Brooklyn Bridge in a Halloween costume.