Francine Stock
Francine Stock chooses the film The Apple
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Presented Newsnight, The Money Programme, Front Row and now Radio 4's The Film Programme. Books include A Foreign Country and Man-Made Fibre
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The Apple (1998)
Francine Stock chooses the film The Apple (1998). It was directed by the Iranian film-maker Samira Makhmalbaf when she was just 17 years old. She is the daughter of director and writer Mohsen Mahmalbaf.
Based on an extraordinaryΒ true story and featuring the real people as the actors, The Apple is about two daughters who are locked up by their parents for eleven years, and then have to adjust to the outside world.
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