Shirin
Shirin

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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.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Shirin:

Taraneh Alidoosti
Golshifteh Farahani
Juliette Binoche
Leila Hatami
Zar Amir Ebrahimi
Hedie Tehrani

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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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Movie Metropolis - 8/10 by Christopher Long(Kiarostami) studies the roadmap of the face, faces of women both young and old, faces framed by head scarves that are limned by the flickering light of the faux movie screen.
Combustible Celluloid - 7/10 by Jeffrey M. AndersonThe melodramatic, passionate "Shirin" story drives everything forward, and gazing at the faces of these amazing women can be a compelling experience in itself.
n+1 - 7/10 by A.S. HamrahWatching a movie in a movie theater is an act of collective loneliness. Shirin makes that loneliness cathartic, but by not showing the film within the film, Kiarostami avoids transforming it into entertainment.
User Review - 10/10 by Art SThis is the story of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. You see the movie only through faces of the women watching the "show". So, in come sense, it is like listening to the radio! However, what a masterpiece by Kiarostami. Loved it!
User Review - 10/10 by Zoran SThis is likely to try the patience of most Americans and doesn't have much of a chance of being widely seen. However, I found it to be such a formally compelling and emotionally rich viewing experience. Kiarostami takes the minimalistic visual approach to following the lives of women he presented in "Ten" (2002) even farther. "Shirin" consists entirely of close-ups of women watching an adaptation of "Shirin" that we only hear on the soundtrack. Of course, a close look and listen to the sound/image indicates the women aren't actually watching anything. The making of documentary included on the dvd confirms this: Kiarostami merely filmed women looking at the camera and a cardboard diagram, often directing how they should move their eyes. Strangely, this level of artifice that Kiarostami brings to the film makes the close-ups of the crying women even more powerful. The film they are "watching" exists only in their imagination as it does in ours. It's the ultimate experiment in off-screen space and one of the few films I've seen (since Ingmar Bergman's classic period in the 1960s) to treat the face of women with sublime visual dignity.
User Review - 8/10 by Alfin N90 Minuten, 115 Gesichter: SHIRIN mutet an wie Kiarostamis böse Parodie auf all die einstigen Regiemekritiker vorwiegend des asiatischen Kinos, die mit gro�en, aufwendigen Nationalepen zu staatstragenden Filmemachern avancierten. Auch SHIRIN erzählt einen Urmythos der persischen Kultur - allerdings ganz ohne gro�e Bilder und Pomp. Statt den gro�en, pathetischen Film zu sehen, bekommen wir Bilder von Frauen, die sich ebendiesen (nie gedrehten) Film anschauen. 90 Minuten lang. Nichts anderes. Aus seiner radikalen Verweigerungshaltung heraus wird er dabei zur durchaus ambivalenten Reflexion auf das Kino, seine Illusionismen und seinen seduktiven Charakter.
User Review - 8/10 by Kevin WThe latest from the great Iranian director continues the experimental path he's pursued this decade; notably his contribution to the recent anthology 'To Each His Cinema'. Here, he expands the conceit of filming an audience and capturing their reactions as they watch a film that we, as another audience do not see, but we can hear. In this case, it's a film based upon a famous Persian poem of Khosrow and Shirin. Like his masterpiece at the start of the decade 'Ten', Kiarostami is concerned about looking at the position of women in contemporary Iran. The film is solely composed of static shots of the faces of 114 Iranian actresses and Juliette Binoche. All wear headscarves, yet ironically, although this is a society that we imagine demands women to cover themselves up (some even seem to remove the headscarf), this is a celebration of the female face. What we presume occurs on the screen depends on how we interpret the expressions in the faces of these actresses; joy, surprise, sadness. As such, the film is inevitably going to be hard for some audiences to swallow, but persevere because it's another mesmerising film from one of the greatest film makers of the last few decades.
User Review - 6/10 by Michael HApenas interessante, mas as Iranianas têm um olhar lindo.
User Review - 6/10 by Aephraim SIncredible idea for a movie. Watched the first 10 minutes, which probably sufficed - this is one of those brilliant projects that I think might function as well as a review by Borges of a nonexistent movie as as a movie. Of course, understanding Persian instead of having to read subtitles would undoubtedly change the experience, and I suppose if the story is one every one in the intended audience already knows, that changes things entirely. Wish I could be Persian, to appreciate it the way it was intended; next-best option would be a "cultural translation," but I don't even want to think about what that would be for American culture.
User Review - 2/10 by Carolina RThis was an absolutely shockingly bad film. It was an hour and a half of sitting in a cinema watching a load of women sitting in cinema watching a film. The fact that you didn't see the actual film seemed to be an un successful attempt at distracting you from the weak plotline. One to avoid

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