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Radio Dreams
2017 90m NR
Comedy
,
Drama
6.1
95%
20%
63%
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A brilliant and misunderstood Iranian writer struggles to pursue his ambitious goal of bringing together Metallica and Kabul Dreams, Afghanistan's first rock band.
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Directed By
Babak Jalali
Written By
Aida Ahadiany
,
Babak Jalali
Studio
Butimar Productions
Cast of Radio Dreams
Lars Ulrich
Himself
Larry Laverty
James
Boshra Dastournezhad
Maral
Mohsen Namjoo
Hamid
Radio Dreams Reviews
San Diego Reader
Matthew Lickona
Director and scriptwriter Babak Jalali cleverly uses the station's ramshackle, microbudget operations to highlight the humanity on both sides of the struggle between art and commerce (it's almost like a wrestling match...)
Washington Post
Christopher Kompanek
"Radio Dreams" is a quintessentially American story.
San Francisco Chronicle
David Lewis
We want additional time with these characters, and that's a credit to this film: Like Hamid, we yearn for even more.
RogerEbert.com
Nick Allen
An example of both the compelling passion and polarizing fallibility that can arise when a director works primarily from the heart.
Film Threat
Bradley Gibson
Jalali has created something beautiful from not much in this low budget, sometimes whimsical, sometimes moving day in the life. These uncomfortable moments lead us to a better understanding of people with whom we have no common cultural lexicon.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
The characters' anxious wait for the superstars to arrive provides Jalali with enough tension to sustain his succession of low-key, character-oriented gags.
Los Angeles Times
Gary Goldstein
The quirky setups, oddball interactions and erratic conflicts ... provide ample doses of amusement and provocation to keep things afloat.
New York Times
Glenn Kenny
There are traces of early Wim Wenders in this story of immigrants adrift in a world not their own, trying to make the best of things.
Village Voice
Alan Scherstuhl
The film examines, with wit and patience, the hard work of community-building - and the toll on someone far from home, doing work that's not his calling.
Hollywood Reporter
Neil Young
Contrasting wavelengths of humor and seriousness come through with impressive clarity in director/co-writer Babak Jalali's sophomore outing Radio Dreams.
Variety
Catherine Bray
Royami is the heart of the film: It is his sincere and artistically principled dream of a musical union between East and West, between Metallica and Kabul Dreams, that fuels the film's engine.
World Socialist Web Site
David Walsh
There is a painful element here too: the strangeness of emigration, the indifference of the new country and its population ... This is a rather sad comedy.
Pittsburgh City Paper
Al Hoff
Babak Jalali's dramedy is an affirmation of the trans-cultural aspect of art, but also notes the irresolvable sadness when one no longer resides in the homeland that once fed one's soul.
Cinemalogue
Todd Jorgenson
The uneven but amusing script celebrates the unifying powers of art and culture while layering such observations with sociopolitical context.
SF Weekly
Sherilyn Connelly
One of the more touching of [the] stories finds poetry in the fact that you're never more than 20 minutes from water in this town. (Hunh.)
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Thoughtful and amusing.
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