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The Wedding Suit
IRAN · 1976

The Wedding Suit

Abbas Kiarostami
childhood curiosity class and aspiration tailoring and craftsmanship adolescent mischief coming of age
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Synopsis

A woman orders a suit from a tailor for her young son to wear to her sister's wedding. The tailor's apprentice, together with two other teenage boys who work in the same building, devise a plan to try on the suit at night to see what it feels like.

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