Taxi Tehran (2015)
(Taxi)
Country: IR
Technical: col 82m
Director: Jafar Panahi
Cast: Jafar Panahi
Synopsis:
Forbidden from making films in his native country, the director of Offside and This Is Not a Film takes to driving a taxi cab around the capital, filming himself and his passengers via the subterfuge of a multi-poise camera on the dashboard.
Review:
Utterly absorbing and unique, this film offers a portrait of a man so in love with film that he will go to any lengths to continue making them. The contact with passengers, who are obviously only partly 'caught on the hoof', produces conversations which touch on morality, politics and culture, providing an invaluable window on another country, one so different from Argo, say. Who can doubt the friendliness of a people whose scion is this beatifically smiling, homely, modest man?
(Taxi)
Country: IR
Technical: col 82m
Director: Jafar Panahi
Cast: Jafar Panahi
Synopsis:
Forbidden from making films in his native country, the director of Offside and This Is Not a Film takes to driving a taxi cab around the capital, filming himself and his passengers via the subterfuge of a multi-poise camera on the dashboard.
Review:
Utterly absorbing and unique, this film offers a portrait of a man so in love with film that he will go to any lengths to continue making them. The contact with passengers, who are obviously only partly 'caught on the hoof', produces conversations which touch on morality, politics and culture, providing an invaluable window on another country, one so different from Argo, say. Who can doubt the friendliness of a people whose scion is this beatifically smiling, homely, modest man?
(Taxi)
Country: IR
Technical: col 82m
Director: Jafar Panahi
Cast: Jafar Panahi
Synopsis:
Forbidden from making films in his native country, the director of Offside and This Is Not a Film takes to driving a taxi cab around the capital, filming himself and his passengers via the subterfuge of a multi-poise camera on the dashboard.
Review:
Utterly absorbing and unique, this film offers a portrait of a man so in love with film that he will go to any lengths to continue making them. The contact with passengers, who are obviously only partly 'caught on the hoof', produces conversations which touch on morality, politics and culture, providing an invaluable window on another country, one so different from Argo, say. Who can doubt the friendliness of a people whose scion is this beatifically smiling, homely, modest man?