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In the thoughtful Iranian film A Moment of Innocence, a director attempts to reconstruct a pivotal incident from his early life, when he knifed a policeman. The vanity of the participants intrudes; the boy playing the young director breaks down - he doesn't want to stab anyone. The picture has immense warmth and wit, and is not at all the clinical experiment it appears to be.
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