Widely regarded as one of the most important ambitious and rewarding filmmakers at work today Kiarostami continues to explore the potential of cinema stimulating and challenging the viewer's imagination to an extraordinary degree. His new film Shirin a retelling of a classic Persian love story offers a feast for the imagination of a wholly unexpected kind.
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Celebrated Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami directed this experimental feature in which in the truest sense the audience is the star SHIRIN was shot during a performance of a play based on Farrideh Golbou&39;s narrative poem KHOSROW E SHIRIN a love story in which an artist and an emperor both vie for the hand of a queen from Armenia However what is happening on stage is never seen; instead Kiarostami trains his camera on the women watching the performance (one of whom is French actress Juliette Binoche while the others are artists from Iran) We see the story as it is reflected in the reaction of the spectators who laugh cry and become drawn into the emotions of the tale that is played out before them
Feature film cum art installation in which Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami trains his camera on the faces of a cinema audience comprising 114 actresses - 113 Iranian theatre and cinema actresses and one French film star, Juliette Binoche - as they watch one of Kiarostami's own films, a theatrical rendering of the 12th-century Persian poem ' Khosrow and Shirin'. As the narrative unfolds on the screen that the women are watching (which remains invisible to the viewer throughout), it prompts various reactions in its audience: rapt attention, smiles, sidelong glances, headscarf-fiddling and, at several points, tears.
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