Secret Ballot
Closed CaptioningBabak Payami
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Plot Summary
Award winner at five international film festivals, writer/director Babak Payami's SECRET BALLOT is a satirical comedy that humorously sheds light on the universal discrepancies of the voting process and gender differences. It's Election Day on a remote island off the coast of Iran and a ballot box is parachuted to shore. An unnamed soldier is assigned to escort a female bureaucrat to gather votes. Together, they embark on a chaotic journey, turning the island upside down, desperately seeking anyone's vote! There is more to the SECRET BALLOT than the two could ever imagine!
Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
TOMATOMETER
82%- Reviews Counted: 57
- Fresh: 47
- Rotten: 10
- Average Rating: 7.0/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: Secret Ballot charms with its amalgam of absurdity, optimism, humor, and avuncular regard for the million small daily chores, rituals, suspicions, and courtesies of dwellers on even the sparsest spots on earth.
Fresh: Will amuse and provoke adventurous adults in specialty venues.
Fresh: A gem, captured in the unhurried, low-key style favored by many directors of the Iranian new wave.
Rotten: Secret Ballot is too contemplative to be really funny.
