Rangan2016-02-24T18:05:46.516Z

8/10

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 movie...

Geronimo19672026-03-20T17:00:17.534Z

7/10

Who’d be a Tehrani taxi driver, eh? Well banned film-maker Jafar Panahi used this “disguise” to mount a camera on his dashboard and document some of the characters who hail his services around the city. Now we’ve all taken cabs and found the driver to have an opinion on...

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Taxi

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…