The Village Voice, February 26th, 2002
MARYAM
Written and directed by Ramin Serry Streetlight
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Cousins can exert a strange fascination-a peer group more exotic than siblings, they're a remote mirror for one's own experience. Maryam is a story of cousinly love set against the backdrop of political insurgency. Ramin Serry's sensitive and moving debut feature opens with archival footage of the shah of Iran, looking sleek and composed beside President Carter, and the revolutionary masses in Tehran, burning Uncle Sam in effigy.
"What did Iran have to do with me?" a girl named Maryam (Mariam Parris), asks in...
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