2014 · drama · supernatural · spy
Rosewater
Directed by Jon Stewart1h 43m2014
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.
Our read: Rosewater (2014) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · supernatural · spy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / supernatural, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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