Rosewater (film)
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Directed by | Jon Stewart |
Produced by | Scott Rudin Jon Stewart Gigi Pritzker |
Screenplay by | Jon Stewart |
Based on | Then They Came for Me by Maziar Bahari and Aimee Molloy |
Starring | Gael García Bernal Kim Bodnia Golshifteh Farahani |
Music by | Howard Shore[1] |
Cinematography | Bobby Bukowski |
Edited by | Jay Rabinowitz |
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Distributed by | Open Road Films[2] |
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103 minutes[3] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $5-10 million[4][5][6][7] |
Box office | $3.2 million[5] |
Rosewater is a 2014 American political drama film written, directed and produced by Jon Stewart, based on the memoir Then They Came for Me by Maziar Bahari and Aimee Molloy.[8] It recounts Bahari's 2009 imprisonment by Iran, connected to an interview he participated in on The Daily Show that same year; Iranian authorities presented the interview as evidence that he was in communication with an American spy.[9] Due to the content of the film, Stewart has been accused by Iran's state TV of being funded by Zionists and working with the CIA.[10] The film was released in theaters on November 14, 2014.
Contents
Plot
In 2009, London-based Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari is detained in Iran after he reports on violence against protesters of the country's presidential election, as well as giving a satirical interview with Jason Jones of The Daily Show.[11] While his pregnant fiancée waits for him, Bahari spends 118 days at Evin Prison being brutally interrogated.[12]
Bahari is usually blindfolded while being interrogated, and his interrogator's sole distinguishing feature is that he smells of rosewater.[12]
Cast
- Gael García Bernal as Maziar Bahari, a journalist who was interrogated and tortured over 118 days in Iran[8]
- Shohreh Aghdashloo as Moloojoon
- Kim Bodnia as "Rosewater"[13]
- Dimitri Leonidas as Davood[14]
- Golshifteh Farahani as Maryam
- Haluk Bilginer as Baba Akbar
- Arian Moayed as Hamid[15]
- Amir El-Masry as Alireza[16]
- Jason Jones as himself
Production
Rosewater was filmed in Jordan, with footage from Iran,[17] between June and mid-August 2013.[8] It had a budget of $5–10 million.[4][5][6][7]
Release
On July 31, 2014, it was announced that the film would be released on November 7, 2014.[18] The film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on August 29, 2014,[19] and it was screened in the Special Presentations section of the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival in September 2014.[20]
Reception
Box office
Rosewater grossed $3.2 million.[5]
In its opening weekend, the film grossed $1.2 million from 371 theaters, finishing 13th at the box office.[21]
Critical reception
Rosewater received mostly positive reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a rating of 78%, based on 135 reviews, with an average rating of 6.7/10. The site's consensus reads, "Timely, solidly acted, and unabashedly earnest, Rosewater serves as an impressive calling card for first-time director Jon Stewart."[22] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 67 out of 100, based on 35 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[23]
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External links
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