Shirin

Shirin

You are the screen, they are the audience.

NR 2009 · 92 min · ★ 6.2 · Drama

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.

Directed by Abbas Kiarostami · Written by Mohammad Rahmanian

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