White Balloon, The
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White Balloon, The
-- A seven-year-old girl living in Teheran goes to buy a plump goldfish for the Islamic New Year's celebration but loses the money down a streetside grate and enlists the aid of harried passersby to retrieve it before nightfall. Producer-director Jafar Panahi's Iranian production tells its simple tale in real time from the youngster's perspective with much of its appeal coming from the varied reactions of those called upon to help the child. Subtitles. Distraught youngster.(A-II) (nr)
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1996
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The classifications are as follows:
- A-I -- general patronage;
- A-II -- adults and adolescents;
- A-III -- adults;
- A-IV**
- L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. L replaces the previous classification, A-IV.
- O -- morally offensive.
** Discontinued classification. All archived movies that were originally in the A-IV category are now classified as L.