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Closed Curtain
Why this pick
A formally playful, intimate companion to Taxi: Panahi uses confinement and direct address to blur performance and reality, finding wit and quiet resistance inside severe limits.
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MOVIE2015 1h 22m IRN
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
''Taxi'' portrays director Jafar Panahi as he courses through the streets of Tehran while pretending to be a Share taxi#Ajans/اژانس driver. He wants to hear a piece of his passengers' life and declines any payment for the services. His earliest passengers include a conservative-minded man who supports capital punishment and a woman supporting its abolition, a Copyright infringement vendor named Omid who once lent foreign films not available in the country to Panahi, an injured man and his wife who both insist on recording a Will and testament due to their panic, and a pair of superstitious old women wanting to release their goldfishes to a holy spring.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Jafar Panahi
Jafar Panahi