Les Enfants de Belle Ville (The Beautiful City / Shah-re Ziba) by Ashgar FARHADI

Les Enfants de Belle Ville (The Beautiful City / Shah-re Ziba) by Ashgar FARHADI

Plot:

Akbar has just turned eighteen. He has been held in a rehabilitation centre for committing murder at the age of sixteen when he was condemned to death. Legally speaking, he had to reach the age of eighteen so that the conviction could be carried out. Now, Akbar is transferred to prison to await the day of his execution. A'la, a friend of Akbar, who himself has undergone imprisonment for burglary, soon after his release tries desperately to gain the consent of Akbar's plaintiff so as to stop the execution.

from Wikipedia 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beautiful_City

Other links: 

 The New York Times (review):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/15/movies/15beau.html?_r=2&oref=slogin

 Le Monde (review):

http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2012/07/10/les-enfants-de-belle-ville-les-dilemmes-moraux-d-asghar-farhadi_1731641_3246.html

Libération (review):

http://next.liberation.fr/cinema/2012/07/10/saints-jeunes-perses_832408

Télérama (review):

http://www.telerama.fr/cinema/films/les-enfants-de-belle-ville,434279.php

Les Inrockuptibles (review)

http://www.lesinrocks.com/cinema/films-a-l-affiche/les-enfants-de-belle-ville/

Asghar FARHADI 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asghar_Farhadi