“You are the screen, they are the audience.”
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.
Abbas Kiarostami
Abbas Kiarostami
Hamideh Razavi
Farrideh Golbou
Mohammad Rahmanian
Mahmoud Kalari
Taraneh Alidoosti
Golshifteh Farahani
Juliette Binoche
Leila Hatami
Zar Amir Ebrahimi
Hedie Tehrani
Pegah Ahangarani
Baran Kosari
Tannaz Tabatabaei
Ateneh Faghih Nasiri
Azita Hajian
Afsaneh Bayegan
... and 88 more
Shirin, directed by Abbas Kiarostami(2008)
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