A yellow cab is driving through the vibrant and colourful streets of Tehran. Very diverse passengers enter the taxi, each candidly expressing their views while being interviewed by the driver who is no one else but the director Jafar Panahi himself. His camera placed on the dashboard of his mobile film studio captures the spirit of Iranian society through this comedic and dramatic drive…
- 7.0
- 2015
- Released
- 1h 21m
Released
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- #taxi
- #taxi driver
- #passenger
- #teheran (tehran), iran
- #mockumentary
- #poverty
- #iran
- #fake documentary
- #subjective camera
- #found footage
- #censorship
- #metaphor
- #sharia law
- #pseudo-documentary
Reviews
> 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