"In Lost Time, a startlingly feminist film by one of Iran's first woman directors, Puran Darakhshandeh weaves a magical atmosphere around an old house, an orphan girl, and a childless doctor who knows her own mind. Fine lensing, believable acting and a lyrical flashback structure put pic among top achievements in this season's Iranian cinema. Shakibey (played with solemn firmness by Sanaz Sehati, a college prof in her first acting job) is a gynecologist who is sterile. Her architect husband...feels doubly frustrated when Shakibey meets little Lali and wants to adopt her. Fearing she'll stop trying to have a child of their own, he forces her to give the girl up... If the film reaches a happy ending, it does so through an intense examination of what it means to be a woman in Iran today..." (Deborah Young, Variety).