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‘Boomerang’ Review: A Fresh, Leisurely Look at a Changing Tehran
Iranian writer-director Shahab Fotouhi debuts with 'Boomerang,' a novel film about teen romance, middle-aged divorce and quince jam.
However, the crux of “Boomerang” is its female characters: a mother, Sima (Leili Rashidi), and her teenage daughter Minoo (Yas Farkhondeh), who seldom interact on screen, but whose overlapping stories speak to the country’s shifting tides. Fotouhi and Faraz Fesharaki’s camera lingers on spaces long after characters have left them, and the film even introduces new scenes and interludes through lengthy pans and tilts that focus on the most mundane city architecture. This languid, multifaceted portrait of the city and its youth is a far cry from the Iranian cinema that tends to travel westward — the more structured and serious-minded “New Wave” films and their descendants — which only adds to the many reasons Fotouhi’s approach feels so revitalizing.
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