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At 05:08 PM 6/30/2009, Dennis Claxton wrote:
>At 01:54 PM 6/30/2009, wrobert at uci.edu wrote:
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>>She also codirected a quite good documentary called Divorce, Iranian Style.
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>Sundance is running Nose, Iranian Style. I saw it last night:
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>A surprising, compulsively watchable documentary that raises unsettling
>questions about human nature and contemporary Iranian society, "Nose
>Iranian Style" is about Iran leading the world in the number of nose jobs
>per year, currently estimated at 60,000-70,000.
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>School girls, but also boys, look forward to their nose operations, which
>they hope will make them attractive to the opposite sex. Model noses are
>found in Western fashion mags, but Michael Jackson is also cited. Entire
>families follow the cookie-cutter fashion, rarely motivated by any real
>need. Possible reasons behind this rhinoplasty epidemic are the emphasis
>that scarves and hijabs put on women's faces, and a general feeling of
>loss of identity among the younger generation. Oskouei and his editors
>wisely let the patients and surgeons speak for themselves with minimal comment.
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>http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117930785.html?categoryid=31&cs=1
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