Tehran Taxi
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Tehran Taxi
[ Madman DVD / DVD ]
Release Date: Thursday 9 June 2016
M Offensive language
The great Iranian director Jafar Panahi (Offside, The Circle) has never let being barred from filmmaking stop him. For the third time since the ban was imposed, he's managed to apply his considerable art to production on a very small scale and to get the resulting work out of Iran and into competition at a major international film festival.
In Tehran Taxi, shot entirely inside a car, he poses as a cab driver and films interactions with a succession of lively customers, not least his own feisty niece who's making a film too. It's never entirely clear whether the passengers are aware of their participation, adding an ambiguity all the more teasing for being in their best interests. The surprisingly informative, entertaining and layered sampling of life in Tehran that emerges won the Golden Bear for Best Film at Berlin.
Languages: Farsi with English subtitles.
" A+ - A Unique Cinematic Masterpiece, an essential film of the year, if not the decade. That it's a thoroughly exciting, entertaining and ingenious work of cinema elevates it to the company of all-time greats. Indiewire
"One of the most captivating cinematic experiences of this year. It's reflective and revealing, intimate and wide-ranging, compact and moving." - The New York Times
