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‘Reading Lolita in Tehran’ Review: Intimate Adaption of Azar Nafisi’s Memoir
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Eran Riklis’s decades-spanning film feels sporadic to a fault at times, but is elevated by the rebellious spirit of its central character.

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‘Reading Lolita in Tehran’ Wins Two Awards
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'Reading Lolita in Tehran,' an Israel-Iran filmmaking collaboration, scored an award just as the two countries fired missiles at each other.