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Shirin

Shirin

2009, Movie, 1h 32min

A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the text -- long a favorite in Persia and the Middle East -- remains invisible to the viewer of the film, the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching the show.

Country: Iran

Director:

Abbas Kiarostami

Cast:

Juliette Binoche,

Golshifteh Farahani,

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Critic David Parkinson

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8

...Kiarostami confounds the fundamentalists by celebrating the expressive beauty of the female face in evocative close-ups.

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