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A Wedding Suit
(Lebassi baraye arossi)

Directed by Abbas Kiarostami.
With Hashem Arkan, Mohammad Fassih, Reza Hashemi.
Iran, 1976, DCP, color, 54 min.
Persian and Azerbaijani with English subtitles.

One of the lesser-known gems of Kiarostami's early career, A Wedding Suit tells the story of a teenage tailor's apprentice pressured by two boys who want to borrow a suit for an evening. A coming-of-age fable about bad friendship and the social codes of adulthood, A Wedding Suit is also an evocative poem to Tehran seen from street level, from the point of view of boys longing to become men. 

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