Closed Curtain (2013)
- Original title
- پرده
- Directed by
- Kambuzia Partovi, Jafar Panahi
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Iran
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- Rated
- 12
- Rating
- 6.8 of 10 from 23 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A screenwriter moves into a beachfront villa to work on a script. His solitude is interrupted when his sister brings a young woman to hide from the police. The film was made secretly under conditions of censorship.
melancholicintrospectiveclaustrophobicslow-burnmetafictionalrestrainedsomberminimalist
What happens
Closed Curtain (Persian: پرده, Pardeh) is a 2013 Iranian docufiction film by Jafar Panahi and Kambuzia Partovi. It premiered at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival on February 12, 2013 where Panahi won the Silver Bear for Best Script. It was shot secretly at Panahi's own beachfront villa on the Caspian Sea. Panahi stated that he began shooting the film in a state of melancholy but managed to recover by the film's completion. Closed Curtain is Panahi's second film since his 20-year ban on filmmaking after 2011's This Is Not a Film. The film was selected as the closing film of the 2013 Hong Kong International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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