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Dressage (2019)

Dressage poster
Original title
درساژ
Directed by
Pooya Badkoobeh
Genre
drama film
Country
Iran
Runtime
1h 28m
Rating
5.2 of 10 from 11 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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A 16-year-old girl faces escalating problems in contemporary Iran. The movie critiques the moral decay of Iran's middle and upper classes.

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What happens

Dressage (Persian: درساژ) is a 2018 Iranian coming-of-age thriller drama film directed by Pooya Badkoobeh. The film tells the story of a 16-year-old girl and her problems and reflects on social divisions within contemporary Iranian society and indicts the middle and upper classes that have lost their moral centre. The film is Badkoobeh's directorial debut. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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