Once Upon a Time, Cinema (1992)

Original title

ناصرالدین شاه، آکتور سینما

Directed by

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Genre

drama film, comedy film

Country

Iran

Runtime

1h 32m

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A black-and-white fantasy comedy that uses clips from old Iranian silent films. It parodies early cinema conventions through a story about a character from the past discovering filmmaking.

whimsicalnostalgicplayfulparodiclightheartedmetainventive

What happens

Once Upon a Time, Cinema (Persian: ناصرالدین‌شاه آکتور سینما, lit. 'Naser al-din Shah, Actor of Cinema') is a 1992 Iranian fantasy comedy film, written and directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf. The film includes clips from old Iranian films from the silent age onwards. Made in black-and-white (with a brief colour sequence), it parodies many of the conventions of silent slapstick comedy and early fantasy films. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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