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APPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR

By | January 2014

2014 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL NEXT (<=>) SELECTION! If this is a film about someone finding comfort in her own skin and moving forward from there, Akhavan’s future seems the brightest of all…

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