A cultured girl in the very religious-government of modern Iran that tries to exert her love for movies, despite the authorities pressuring her and others of this age group to think outside of western pop culture.
Mary Juana, most noted in the past for the allegations of drug and alcohol abuse as reported by the media, has made a comeback from the tabloids and once again made me realized why she was considered a rising writer/director star years ago, when she made "Honey Deal".
What she does is make a touching, little drama that despite my fears that I was stuck having to watch a melodrama chick teen angst flick....I connected with. Maybe its the premise that people over in regimes that our government is opposing, also dig the same movies we do, but unlike in America, to do such things isn't a time-killing past time. Its defying a government trying to impose its moral, religious, and political will on the youth.
