The Apple
1998
· Movie
· 82 min
B
MEANRANK
73/100
Every rating
58–85
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is AlloCiné on 58, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 85. Critics average 85, everyone else 71.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →After twelve years of imprisonment by their own parents, two Iranian sisters are finally released by social workers to face the outside world for the first time.
Details
- Director
- Samira Makhmalbaf
- Writers
- Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Samira Makhmalbaf
- Released
- 27 May 1998
- Country
- Iran, France, Netherlands
- Language
- Persian
- Runtime
- 82 min
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