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Rosewater
Directed by
Jon Stewart
R
2014
1h 43m
Drama
,
Biography
6.6
76%
68%
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Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari is detained by Iranian forces who brutally interrogate him under suspicion that he is a spy.
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Cast of Rosewater
Gael García Bernal
Maziar Bahari
Shohreh Aghdashloo
Moloojoon
Jason Jones
Jason Jones
Haluk Bilginer
Baba Akbar
Nasser Faris
Haj Agha
Andrew Gower
Jimmy the avid editor
Kim Bodnia
Javadi (Rosewater)
Dimitri Leonidas
Davood
Golshifteh Farahani
Maryam
Claire Foy
Paola
Amir El-Masry
Alireza
Kambiz Hosseini
Hassan
Numan Acar
Rahim
Arian Moayed
Hamid
Ayman Sharaiha
Blue-Eyed Seyyed
Zeid Kattan
Seyyed
Ali Elayan
Channel One State TV Interviewer
Nidal Ali
Prison Soundsman
Alex Klaus
Prison Barber
Firas Fanni
Another Prisoner
Alaadin Khasawneh
Prison Guard
Hamid Masri
Admission Guard #1
Wissam Tobaileh
Admission Guard #2
Amir Rahimzadeh
Abdul
Manar Mughrabi
Female Agent
Mohammad Abdel Raheem
Cyrus
Manaf Irani
Avid Debate Watcher
Mohammad Sami
Teenage Boy
Miles Jupp
Maziar's Producer
Lindsey Hilsum
Herself
Ed Ward
Field Producer
Jonathan Hopper
Young Rosewater
Bassam Hanna
Rosewater's Father
Nafisa Ghazi
Rosewater's Mother
Hassan Sha'er
1980 Prison Warden
Ahmad Massad
Tavab
Hamza Muhaisen
Young Maziar
Saif Goussous
Polling Station Policeman
Ali Hussein
Maziar's Newborn Daughter
Saro Karaoghlanian
Maziar's Friend
Hannah Douglass
Flight Attendant
Eyad Zoubi
Shah's Guard
Mohammad Nizar
Cyrus
Rosewater Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
Rosewater certainly has merit as an act of atonement on Stewart's part and a tribute to people like Bahari... In the end, however, the movie needs to stand on its own, apart from its noble intentions and the popularity of its writer-director.
RogerEbert.com
Godfrey Cheshire
The gripping, intelligent directorial debut of TV personality Jon Stewart, who also wrote the screenplay, based on Bahari's post-prison memoir, "Then They Came For Me."
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Stewart does a credible job of maintaining the story's immediacy, but I must say I felt relieved that the film wasn't a masterpiece. If it was, we'd have more reason to fear Stewart will leave The Daily Show.
Detroit News
Tom Long
Stewart's enthusiasm for his story and passion about injustice ring clear, but throughout what could have been a dreadfully somber film, he remembers to breathe.
Reel Talk Online
Candice Frederick
The rest of the film is...kinda all over the place.
leonardmaltin.com
Leonard Maltin
Stewart does a great job of avoiding clichés in his first time feature as writer-director, but the emotional tie that was needed in order to make a connection with the main character was missing.
Flavorwire
Jason Bailey
We rarely get the sense that Stewart is talking down to us - which is why it's such a disappointment that 'Rosewater', is so often pitched and played like a carefully dumbed-down TV movie.
The New Republic
Esther Breger
The main question Rosewater grapples with is whether Stewart can hack it as a filmmaker. The answer: sort of?
The New Yorker
David Denby
The hard-focus clarity of the images (Bobby Bukowski did the cinematography) leads to an intimacy with anguish that passes into expressionism.
NPR
Bob Mondello
Rosewater ... has an urgency that's all about the storytelling smarts of its first-time writer-director.
TheWrap
Alonso Duralde
While the film keeps telling us that Bahari survived his ordeal by freeing his mind from imprisonment and eventually outsmarting his rosewater-scented interrogator, we are told that he's doing so more than we're seeing it.
Seattle Times
Soren Andersen
A finely wrought, powerful drama that tells the true story of an Iranian-born journalist's imprisonment and torture by the Islamic regime in Iran.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Stewart acquits himself solidly, though not thrillingly, as a beginning director ...
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Mr. Stewart's interest in the material is obviously personal, but his movie transcends mere self-interest.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Stewart's wryly observant qualities as a TV star serve him well in his feature film debut.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
A strong, striking political drama.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
What makes "Rosewater" different from similar entries in what might be called the Triumph of the Imprisoned Spirit genre is that the hero is hardly an ideologue, despite having sympathy for the Iranian reformers and the Green party.
Chicago Sun-Times
Mary Houlihan
With Rosewater, Stewart proves he can pull back from the satirical comedy and become a thoughtful, incisive and questioning filmmaker.
NPR
Tomas Hachard
The result neither portrays the suffering of Bahari's incarceration adequately nor lampoons the absurdities of the situation.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
"Rosewater" doesn't hector, nor does it giggle about the issue of press freedom. It's an impressive and important piece of storytelling.
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