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The Salt Lake Tribune CALENDAR Friday, June4. 1999 B3 The Mirror’Smashes Preconceptions AboutIran, Children and Movies chers leave for hom ins. Mina is by no. KAKI The Mirror less. A child’seye view of modern Iran, which shows more than vou might imagine. Neo-realism began in Italy in herownto find the bus stop. filmmaking in recent years as fully as Iran Neo-realism stresses small. in: timate stories. with as little arti film has been the toast of the Abbas Kiarostami’s Taste of Cherry” won the Palme d@Or at Cannes, while ar “The White Balloon™ in that it fo- cuses on a little girl aloneinabig, viewer question all preconcep tions about Ivan, children and even the act of watching a movie. Little Mina (played by Mina Mohammad-Khani), her left arm ina cast, Is waiting in front of her school for her mother to come pick but intolerance for CAUSTA roca ins MICHELLE eet STANLEY ss SABRI Saagaetc) MIDSUMMER lertnas) Dt. x to say that the event only momen, tarily derails the movie's central her up. But as her first-grade classmates disperse Love makes fools of us all and the Se. ORIN RIA 70] RATT wns Stale cuoseo VENTA sistise Ses 5 Best AcadForeign emy Awards Film nck THEATRE mance sec “LIFE(PG-43) IS BEAUTIFUL” FRI. a a Sat. 3:00 5: a took honors there for his debut “The White Balloon.” Panahi's second film. “The Mirror. is like a Lost PaANeesdEaDLLOLYISStallCrea MU McmIe=@e VOD ENRit VAMPIRES SeCUO) nae out Penneau) M. AIX 1 Notting Hilea OTE BEOa0 ut KdLs 1 INTENT 3 HYPNOTIST AVALON THEATER Stata reserve ca3005204§. 9491/288-0256 ao KS DME eenssiredWat arian) (CENTURY, 16 SALT LAKE ® 474-3456 PEE 333-FILM (#265) MUMMY €>CINEPLEX Taeees INSTINCT. 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(ON SCREENS) (OTS DIGITAL) (orsoneitat) NEVER BEEN KISseD(mG-19) MME LOVE LETTER (PG.t 13 chormarment G12) 0010| (oO Seay Bay stage teen eee 'W. South Temple ea OF TOWNERS °c-13 (unrated. because Iraniin an city but this latest movie throws in a twist that makes the Panahi (a protege of Kiarostami) THE MATRIX @ 445 440 7.05 1010 Rg ies EVERETT pens. To say what itis would spoil one of the most ine movie surprises of the decade. Suffice it va Little Minafearlessly rides the bus and attempts to return home alone. well-suited for Iran, a country with limited resources and strict government control, because neo realismfavors parablesthat speak to larger issues but speaking softly, so as not to draw the cen sor’s wrath In the past few years, Iranian censors have One driver tries to help het but nation has embraced the film style The style i probably G irritatingly indifferent. She Hips another kicks her off because she Was in the men’s section of the bus (segregation by sex being the norm tn Iran). Then something amazing hap spread across the world. But no fice as possiblegetting in the way The Mirror” mostly male. rangefromhelpfulto on the bus going de Sica’s “The Bicycle Thief.” and NEVER BEEN KISSED P63 240 44S 72010: raising The adults she encounters the 1940s, with Robert Rossellini’s. “Rome Open City” and Vittorio 4% STAR WARS: THE PHANTOM MENACE PG $00 490 700 1090 & INSTINCT @ 200 450 7.40 1025 Mina re help: tary fashior hi Class status Trai the bu in THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE world she crosses the busy 1 n intersec tion to get to a pay phone. and eventually decides to strikeouton BY SEAN P. MEANS of the characters, tho na Eeviitieee THE acc FLOOR NOTING ae RAMSAR aa SE B34 re Tint mona 1) The Cove verien vr 19) THe THIRTEENTH FLOOR(R) reeie ABOUT oa, TAX DiGITA Pa 5 e - onatar TAR | MATRIX 150. 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