Shirin
You are the screen, they are the audience.
NR
Drama
Starring: Taraneh Alidoosti, Golshifteh Farahani, Juliette Binoche, Leila Hatami, Zar Amir Ebrahimi
Writer: Farrideh Golbou, Mohammad Rahmanian, Hakim Nezami Ganjavi
Release Date:
April 18, 2009
April 18, 2009
Ratings:
6.2 / 10
6.2 / 10
Director:
Abbas Kiarostami
Abbas Kiarostami
Companies:
Kiarostami Foundation
Kiarostami Foundation
Overview
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.
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