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Shirin (Persian: شیرین) is a 2008 Iranian drama film directed by Abbas Kiarostami. [1] The film is considered by some critics as a notable twist in the artistic career of Kiarostami. The film features close-ups of many notable Iranian actresses and French actress Juliette Binoche as they watch a film based on the part-mythological Persian romance tale of Khosrow and Shirin , with themes ...
Jul 24, 2021 · Shirin is not an exception. It is an experiment on image, sound, female spectatorship, reverse filmmaking, female self-sacrifice, and alternative way of storytelling. As the film starts, viewers see multiple Iranian Women watching a film based on the famous Iranian epic poem Khosrow and Shirin in a dark movie theater. However, these women are ...
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
Shirin is a full ninety minutes of visual storytelling—the relationship with the literary characters is just oblique and inferred. There is no “real” film about Khosrow and Shirin that is being withheld. Kiarostami didn’t film a low-budget movie for the actresses to watch, so there is nothing missing and nothing to recreate.
The resulting experiment, Shirin is a wonderful, post-modern take on the cinema. As the movie unfolds, it becomes clear that we aren’t here to watch a story in the traditional sense, but to take ...
Aug 5, 2019 · It makes for a unique movie viewing experience, that gives an alternate way of both making and viewing movies than the usual Hollywood commercial way of manipulating an audience. Apparently made to show that Kiarostami, after some criticism, could also make an accessible commercial and inaccessible noncommercial f ilm within the confines of his artistic experimental techniques.
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The plot, such as it is, follows a retelling of the 12th-century Persian love story Khosrow and Shirin. The medium is that of a cinema audience: from a fixed camera position, we are shown a series of close-ups of women's faces, observing their emotional responses to the off-screen romantic tragedy that we never see.
