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Atefeh Nikohl Boosheri , a 16 -year-old middle-class girl in Tehran, falls for a less-privileged classmate in this melodramatic debut from US-Iranian writer/director Maryam Keshavarz.
She offers a revealing portrait of an underground youth scene (in which Gus Van Sant’s Milk is secretly dubbed into Farsi) but the twentysomething leads are too glamorous to convince as schoolgirls, with some of the fantasy sequences verging on softcore porn.
There’s also a risible plot strand that sees Atafeh’s fundamentalist brother rigging up the house with multiple surveillance cameras.
"Souls-like meets Fable" is all this indie RPG needed to say to meet its Kickstarter goal, but it added in a Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood nod just for good measure
Gorgeous JRPG homage Clair Obscur sells out its collector's edition months before launch, dev says it didn't think "the demand for our physical editions would be so high"
Turn-based RPG Clair Obscur dev says all-star voice actor lineup includes people like Andy Serkis and Baldur’s Gate 3 alumni by accident: "He was like, 'Isn't that Clive from Final Fantasy?'"
