Monday, 26 September 2016

Taxi Tehran

Iranian film director Jafar Panahi travels around his home city of Tehran in a taxi, recording conversations with his fares.


A surprisingly engaging movie, somewhat staged. Panahi's fares include a midget bootleg video dealer; two old dears trying to get to a sacred spring to release some goldfish; Panahi's precocious niece and a woman taking roses to a political prisoner on hunger strike.

Panahi is not allowed to make movies by order of the Iranian censor, so the film is also a bootleg, of sorts. Recommended.

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