An Iranian version of "Boys Don't Cry," Unveiled overflows with sociopolitical outrage even if its portrayal of a gender-confused heroine is ultimately indecisive and laconic.
Unveiled(Fremde Haut)
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Germany, Austria · 2005
1h 40m
Director Angelina Maccarone
Starring Jasmin Tabatabai, Anneke Kim Sarnau, Navid Navid, Georg Friedrich
Genre Drama
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Survival is not enough. Fariba Tabrizi has made it. Under peril of death she has fled from Iran. In Germany she has no alternative way of avoiding the threat of deportation other than to assume the identity of a deceased co-detainee. So what happens after a few month in which she has tried to come to terms with a situation which is actually an insufferable one for her? How does Fariba live not only in this external state of exile but also in an inner state of exile? The term "in orbit" is officially used by the UN to refer to asylum-seekers who find themselves orbiting around planet Earth because they can actually find legal domicile nowhere at all.
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Several large leaps of faith take some of the dramatic steam out of Unveiled, an otherwise well-acted and accessible lesbian drama that also flirts with issues like loss of identity and anti-Muslim tensions.
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
The parts are more valuable than the whole in Angelina Maccarone's Unveiled.
Thanks largely to Tabatabai's superb performance, it's on this level that Maccarone's film is most affecting.
Tabatabai delivers a strong performance and the script, although not always plausible, touches on important issues like bias against gays and Muslims.
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