> Roaming around Tehran in a taxi for 80 minutes.
This is one of the unique film, and the filmmaking I have seen. It is a docudrama, starred and directed by Jafar Panahi. It is my first film of his and I'm very impressed. I also learnt he was banned from making movies and to leave the country since last 5 years. But he took all the legal route possible to keep making them, and this movie is the...
Who’d be a Tehrani taxi driver, eh? Well banned film-maker Jafar Panahi used this “disguise” to mount a camera on his dashboard and document some of the characters who hail his services around the city. Now we’ve all taken cabs and found the driver to have an opinion on just about everything, but here their host tends to say little and let his passengers doing their talking. Some are chatty, some...