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Fabio Espejo

6Mar12

This movie makes me think casuality as a strange spiral ficction. Tehran reminds me of Bogotá when I was too a kid.

This is my favorite Panahi movie. It's one of the best examples of the breaking (or, should I say, crushing) of the fourth wall, and I absolutely love the way the director plays with all the possibilities. Besides, the little girl is just great, so full of vitality.

kelvanE

11Dec11

'The Mirror' starts off promising: the girl is charismatic, introspective, and bright, and the film's direction and shooting is patient and thoughtful. Then, in an unusual move caused by her, its feel changes and the film becomes a true portrait of the child, upset and proud, and her quest to find home.

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Riri

10Dec11

yeah break the fourth wall !

-VAHID-

1May11

let's play real !

Dimitris Psachos

11Feb11

The complaints about the lack of profoundness and the "content-wise" nagging are inexplicably demanding and overreacting. This is cinéma vérité at its best, let's break the fourth wall more often.

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Josh Youngerman

24Jan11

One of the funniest and most moving films I have ever seen.

All Is Grace

17Nov10

As always Panahi makes a film about Iranian society, this time from the eyes of a child who is on her way home. Although the society looks old to me, and there are so many changes in appearance, but the core is still the same so the film looks real. By the way, there's no Arabic heard in the film in spite of Arabic being listed in MUBI (maybe a bit of Turkish, but not Arabic.).

J. Pomp

25Aug10

An interesting enough concept intellectually, but after Panahi reveals the gimmick (that the girl is being filmed by him as part of a movie within the movie), it becomes nothing more than cinematic rambling. As the film swerves between the girl looking for her mom and the filmmakers looking for the girl to get her back on set, the meta-ness of it all feels less profound than cutesy

Ginny

22Sep09

Yet another quietly beautiful film from Iran. The whole thing is wonderfully understated, and the girl playing the main character is fantastic.

daffy

30Aug09

Liked the scenes of ordinary Iranian life seen through the eyes of the little girl and the twist in the middle of the film! It was interesting to see how the microphone doubled as a tracking device! The energy and the resourcefulness of the little girl impressed me too!