Product Details

• Actors: Golab Adineh, Mohammad Reza Forutan, Baran Kosari, Ebrahin Sheibani, Mohsen Ghazi Moradi
• Directors: Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
• Writers: Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Farid Mostafavi
• Producers: Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Jahangir Kosari
• Format: Color, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: Farsi
• Subtitles: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Fox Lorber
• VHS Release Date: March 16, 2004
• Run Time: 92 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00015YV3G
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #135,003 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A microcosm of all the ills of modern urban life...., January 11, 2009

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Elish (NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Under the Skin of the City (DVD)

The portrait of the struggles of a working class family in Tehran, this film deals with multiple issues which dominate contemporary urban life, including cutting school, political demonstrations, holding onto an old house in a changing neighborhood, domestic abuse, emigration, and much more. Mrs. Tuba works in a factory and struggles to hold her household together while everyone else around her - family, neighbors, coworkers,- are caught up in some kind of scheme or personal crisis. A hard-hitting, fast-moving film.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Some Good Scenes, July 13, 2007

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This review is from: Under the Skin of the City (DVD)

Having lived in this part of the world for some time, I was able to appreciate most of the cultural details that perhaps others in an American audience might miss. Still, the plot confused me in places. But the film is worthwhile for a couple of particularly good scenes. The first is when Abbas finally gets up the courage to declare his feelings for the young woman at the office - he overflows with happiness, cheering himself on in the elevator, and dancing around his mother's home with his sister's wedding dress as a partner. For a moment, he captures the bliss felt in Gene Kelly's "Singin' in the Rain." The second powerful scene is the ending, which turns the spotlight onto the viewer of the film.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The dark side of Tehran, February 6, 2007

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Stanislas Lefort (Switzerland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Under the Skin of the City (DVD)

The real life of a big city depicted in a way the Iranian censorship did not like too much. In this genre, the real masterpiece remains definitely "Dayareh" (The Circle) by Jafar Panahi.