Shirin

when u are seeing this thing u should remind sth to your self:this is not a movie!!!

I love Kiarostami for staying experimental, even at the peak of his glory as Iran's most celebrated filmmaker. His purpose in this work of concept art is clear: By making his entire film a montage of audience members' reaction shots, he wants to tell THEIR stories. You overhear the voices of supposed stage actors, but the real drama occurs in front of the camera, on the women's silently expressive faces. The experiment has its limits, though, and the poem-play is weak by modern standards.

Once again demonstrates his extraordinary ability to lay humanity bare. Incredibly moving.

58.000

although artistically bold, it is exactly as boring as one might think.

Unique. I've never seen anything like this before. One of the best experimental movies i've seen. Imagine this: Kiarostami is filming you watching bunch of women watching a movie that doesn't even exist; Kind of creepy and interesting!

An interesting experiment: can we make where the content is the facial reactions from various audience members watching a film. (In this case, it felt more like they were listening to a story/epic poem.) On this one viewing, the film didn't work so much for me.