Review by linistea

I saw the movie at the movie festival in Montreal, and stayed after for the discussion with the director. A thoughtful director of a powerful movie. The movie is a work of love and respect for women in repressive societies, but also more than that. The movie is structured around reading the letters (reminding me of Chantal Akerman's movie, Letters from home) wrote to each other between 2 women, one Romanian, the other Iranian, read on the background of social political events in both countries, mirroring each other's stolen dreams and revolutions. The story is constructed in the imagination of audience, an intimate powerful homage to women, their power, voice and inner force, who, even if repressed, are not victims in their inner worlds.