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Shirin
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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“You are the screen, they are the audience.”
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Shirin, directed by Abbas Kiarostami(2008)
Movies: Exclusive Clip: 'Shirin' | The New York Times
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Further watching
- Apr 18, 2009
- 1h 32m
- Persian
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Mohammad Rahmanian, Hakim Nezami Ganjavi, Farrideh Golbou
- Released
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