Let nobody say writer-director Maryam Keshavarz, whose film won the audience prize at Sundance, doesn’t know how to start a movie. The first time we see Leila, her alter ego in the autobiographical, warm-hearted, personal, funny but also somewhat chaotic “The Persian Version,” she’s walking across the Brooklyn Bridge in a Halloween costume.
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