THE APPLE World Cinema

An astonishing re-enactment of a tragic
true story: eleven-year old twin daughters
are kept locked away at home their entire
lives as possessive parents deny them the
sort cif freedom and friendships that other
children take for granted. When a
concerned neighbor finally calls a social
service worker and the girls are released,
their sense of discovery in the everyday
streets of Iran is colored with a delightful
awe for simple pleasures while back at
home, their well-meaning but woefully
misguided father is forced to cut through
the iron bars of their front door with a
crude hand-saw.
Samira Makhmalbaf uses the actual
participants of this story, none of whom
are professional actors, to recreate their
own lives. The result is a deceptively dense
meditation on society’s responsibility to
its members and the true meaning of
personal liberty.
Filmography:
THE APPLE is Samira Makhmalbaf’s feature film debut.
Print Source:
MK2 Diffusion