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Parental Guidance(Parental Guidance)

Synopsis

Dir: Jafar Panahi. Persian/Azerbaijani-language Drama. Posing as a cultural photographer, a filmmaker (Jafar Panahi) who is forbidden from making films shoots a film about two lovers (Mina Kavani, Bakhtiar Panjei) trying to flee Iran.

Content elements

  • Infrequent use of cursing, profanity, and vulgar expressions
  • Brief portrayal of hand-to-hand violence in a civil disagreement context - little blood and detail
  • Infrequent portrayals of corpses in a suicide context - some blood, little detail
  • Infrequent references to suicide - some detail
  • Frequent portrayals of tobacco use in a recreational context; infrequent portrayals of alcohol use in a recreational context
  • Brief portrayal of a crude bodily function - some detail

Thematic elements

  • Art and the artist
  • Dedication to a purpose
  • Clandestine filmmaking

Classification rationale

Rated PG for mature subject matter

Classification date

November 28, 2022

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