- With "Circumstance," writer-director Maryam Keshavarz offers a taboo-busting snapshot
- of contemporary Tehran a provocative psychodrama that's part Iranian "Girls Gone Wild,"
- set just before the 2009 elections. Shireen (Sarah Kazemy) and Atefeh (Nikohl Boosheri)
- are beautiful teenage schoolmates attracted to each other and to a host of things
- considered subversive in their repressive, male-dominated homeland; at night, the young
- women boldly doff their head scarves, slip into revealing dresses and then party away in
- an underground dance club.