Babak Jalali’s fourth feature stars Anaita Wali Zada as a refugee whose path overlaps with the actress’ own, trying to find her feet in a strange new world.
There’s a loose template to many films that find a platform at Sundance and frequently disappear into the ether thereafter — the small-scale, muted mood piece that ambles along until something significant finally happens in the last half-hour or so.
Your enjoyment of the quietly humorous character studywill depend on your patience for that model. Still, there’s much to appreciate in the seldom explored Afghan immigrant milieu and the droll decision of director Babak Jalali and co-writer Carolina Cavalli to plonk their young protagonist down in a family-run Chinese fortune cookie factory.
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