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Shirin (2008)

Shirin (2008) Movie Reviews

Cast: Golshifteh Farahani, Mahnaz Afshar, Taraneh Alidoosti, Juliette Binoche, Niki Karimi

Director: Abbas Kiarostami

Running Time: 92 min.

Genre: Drama

Rating: No Rating

Synopsis: 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 12th 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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