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Great film ! You don´t wanna miss it !


I saw this film in The Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival (Mr. Zahedi was there).

Great film !

Very funny in a sort of Woody Allen style (the dialogues are hilarious).
Caveh has a lot to say and Amanda Henderson (one of the actresses) is great as his alcoholic girlfriend !

Also as a cinema student I thought it was very inspiring to see this nice film produced with so little money.

Sometimes all you need is talent and a good script just like Caveh here in this film !

I wish them both (Caveh and Amanda) all the best !

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I won't miss.

I might forget. But I won't miss. Because it takes 10 years for them to release it in the UK because they're too stubborn about getting their own way and not releasing it (legally) over the internet. But then there we go. I could say the same for ten thousand movies.

As soon as the film was done it they released it over the internet everyone, I mean film fans, could see it. But nooo. They have to get their own way.

For indie films like this the internet is the perfect way for them to distribute it.

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I saw it tonight at a local screening room. Incredible! It's use of part documentary, part narrative, part behind-the-scenes to create a fascinating character study is nothing short of brilliant. It's funny, poignant, heartbreaking, many times all at thte same time. One of the best films I have seen so far this year.

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I also saw a screening of this film the other day and saw Mr Zahedi there. Fantastic low budget film that was highly amusing and yet a little bit sad at the same time. He does indeed seem to have a personality that is too overly honest that sometimes gets him into trouble just like he does in the film. Most of the Q and A session with him afterwards was about his condition and not about the making of the film with some interesting confessions.

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ok i admit that i got this movie for some new sex jokes. just for some good time. little did i knew that i was in for a big surprise.

The script is work of a genious. Not for people who want some spice and some pace. but those who are interested in psychology, this movie is a perl.

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Wow...you OBVIOUSLY worked on the movie because this self-refential piece of crap was hardly watchable much less 'brilliant'.



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>Caveh has a lot to say and Amanda Henderson (one of the actresses) is great as his alcoholic girlfriend !

I felt sorry for her, as the real woman who was an alchoholic who died or cancer
I guess he said. I just guess that she was an alchoholic for all kinds of reasons,
pretending to be so cool and relaxes, and the alchohol deadened the pain of being
treated like she was.

I did not feel the movie was really that good, the story was unclear, and the
thing of trying to make it seems like he was being objective about his life
was BS ... but knowing it was BS, he still brought the women in his life into
it, which I think is unfair and in bad taste.

I am glad I saw the movie, and I respect the effort, but it really left a negative
impression on me and I really did not like Caveh. He had nothing to say about
being Iranian, he just acts like a normal American ... maybe he is or maybe
that has something to do with his attitude ... and his ridiculing or therapy,
one wonders if maybe he was courageous enough to make this film to create a
public image, but not quite gutsy enough to confront his own life.

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The emperor has NO CLOTHES!!! sheesh.

Maybe we could do something else together.Mrs.Robinson, would you like to go to a movie?

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I agree with you, i've just saw this film today, and i really like it!
One of the best that i've seen this year so far. (btw, the other one i've like this much too, was Interview, the one directed by Buscemi)


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interview scared me off with those prodical father stuff,, but very interesting film,, and how could u not dig the ending,,,

now as for this sex addict film,, i too really enjoyed it, full story and over the period of the film u really got to know him. Now i dont know about the rest of u out there but i understood how he would think and how easy it is to fall in that trap.
alotta forhead slappin moments.
but its been two days and im still thinkin bout it,,
thats something that the bigger blockbysters managed to do since matrix..


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PLEASE don't compare him to Woody Allen, not even close.

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yes i agree.. very good movie! :D

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I disagree, in the first ten minutes I was excited, I liked the style and I thought it was funny but then it went to a very dark twisted place and I felt distrubed. This guy walked over everyone's feelings for his own personal gratification. And yet kept trying to make it out like it was funny, it's not funny, nor should it be funny when you treat one's you say you Love this way. He is a horrible human being and that's not the way it was portrayed.

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i think you're overlooking the fact that HE MADE THIS FILM. he was fully aware of how badly he behaved. he portrayed himself not as some kind of stud, but as a pathetic weirdo sex addict. that's what makes this movie great. we laugh at his poor decisions and can relate. it's a bloodletting.

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