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The Daily Show‘s Jon Stewart makes his directorial debut with Rosewater, a film based on a true story about perseverance and hope in the face of adversity. Gael Garcia Bernal (The Science of Sleep) stars as Maziar Bahari, an Iranian-born Canadian journalist sent to Iran to cover the 2009 Iranian elections. While in the country, he was arrested under suspicion of espionage and held for 118 days of torture and interrogations. Early reviews following the film’s premiere at the Venice Film Festival have been mostly positive for the film, with some comparisons to Ben Affleck’s Argo being made.
Rosewater will be in theaters on November 7th. You can read the film’s synopsis and take a look at the official poster below.
Rosewater is based on The New York Times best-selling memoir “Then They Came for Me: A Family’s Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival,” written by Maziar Bahari. The film marks the directorial debut of “The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart, and stars Gael García Bernal.Rosewater follows the Tehran-born Bahari, a broadcast journalist with Canadian citizenship. In June 2009, Bahari returned to Iran to interview Mir-Hossein Mousavi, who was the prime challenger to president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. As Mousavi’s supporters rose up to protest Ahmadinejad’s victory declaration hours before the polls closed, Bahari endured personal risk by sending footage of the street riots to the BBC. Bahari was arrested by police, led by a man identifying himself only as “Rosewater,” who tortured and interrogated him over the next 118 days.With Bahari’s wife leading an international campaign to have her husband freed, and Western media outlets keeping the story alive, Iranian authorities released Bahari on $300,000 bail and the promise he would act as a spy for the government.
