Hidden forces childhood, commerce and cost in Granaz Moussavi's when pomegranates howl
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2021
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MacFarlane, K.
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METRO, 2021; (209):28-31
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Depicting the connection between an Australian photojournalist and a young boy in Kabul who dreams of fame and wealth, Granaz Moussavi’s film presents an affecting but unvarnished portrayal of growing up in poverty in a war-racked nation. While the gruesome realities of the two-decade-long Western occupation of Afghanistan and ongoing civil conflict are mostly left implicit, Moussavi’s representation of her young protagonist carefully subverts universalist notions of childhood innocence, Kit MacFarlane writes.
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