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

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)

Trailer

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