SummaryIt's 1979 and Mary, an Iranian-American teenager, pursues fun and romance in the New Jersey suburbs. Mary's world is radically transformed, though, when Ali, her fundamentalist Muslim cousin, comes to live with her family at the same time that Americans are taken hostage in Iran. (Streetlight Films)
Directed By:Ramin Serry
Written By:Ramin Serry
Maryam
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First-time writer-director Serry shows a remarkable gift for storytelling with this moving, effective little film.
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Maryam is more timely now than ever.
75
A searing reminder of the relevance of recent history and of the timeless power of fiction to humanize people and crystallize sweeping events into personal drama.
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Well-meaning but flawed drama.
60
Its subject -- ethnic profiling during a time of international crisis -- could hardly be more contemporary.
50
Maryam is absorbing and insightful when Serry focuses on the subtleties of a family's generational and cultural conflict, but the film veers regularly into Movie Of The Week (or even Afterschool Special) "big moments" that play like forced attempts to tell a personal story while insecurely adhering to a commercial formula.
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There's not much here; some of the shots feel so static that you wonder if they're being rehearsed before your eyes.
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