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The three lead actors were all in Once Upon a Time, Cinema, Makhmalbaf's previous feature; there appear to be some cross-references (such as the hero's Chaplin worship), but here the tone is more caustic, the inventiveness more pointed. The meanings of both films are less than entirely clear, but my hunch is that each is a comic allegory about the rift between traditional and contemporary Iran, in which class differences and cultural differences are equally pertinent.