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May 12, 2016 Full Review Ronnie Scheib Variety Shirin offers a feast for the bedazzled eye and a crash course in narrative obsession for the benumbed mind.
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- Golshifteh Farahani
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Drama
One of Abbas Kiarostami's trickiest and most radical experimental works. Full Review | May 12, 2016. Ronnie Scheib Variety. TOP CRITIC. Shirin offers a feast for the bedazzled eye and a...
Shirin (2008) is an Iranian film directed by Abbas Kiarostami. It's truly unique. We watch an audience of women who are watching a movie about Khosrow and Shirin. That's the title of a famous tragic romance by the Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi (1141-1209). It's a famous poem in Iran. (There's a whole world out there of things that I don't know.)
Shirin, the latest work from acclaimed Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, will no doubt be a disappointment to many. A bold experiment, it stands as a fine example of how difficult it can be to translate such an innovative undertaking into a watchable film experience.
Shirin: Directed by Abbas Kiarostami. With Mahnaz Afshar, Pegah Ahangarani, Taraneh Alidoosti, Zar Amir Ebrahimi. Women's expressions are captured as they watch Khosrow and Shirin, a 12th-century Persian play staged by Kiarostami, revealing their reactions to the unseen narrative.
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- Drama
- Abbas Kiarostami
- 2012-01-18
Summary: A study of an audience immersed in watching a performance or film of a Persian fable of love called Khosrow and Shirin. With: Golshifteh Farahani, Juliette...
May 27, 2009 · 94 minutes. Certificate: TBC. Original Title: Shirin. A masterly variation on the 1920s Kuleshov experiment that demonstrated filmic meaning’s heavy dependence upon context. Thus, the action...
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