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THIS IS NOT A FILM

Mojtaba Mirtahasebi, Jafar Panahi Iran, 2011
It's admirable as an act of political resistance. As cinema, it’s surprisingly sublime.
May 12, 2018
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At the time of his arrest, Panahi was about to shoot another film. Unable to make it, Panahi decided to act it out from Mirtahmasb's camera. Deprived of his locations, deprived of his actors, Panahi becomes a master symbolist.
January 15, 2014
Such extraordinary, carefully deployed details pronounce both This Is Not a Film's mastery and its abounding sadness and outrage. In just over and hour, Panahi and Mirtahmasb communicate more than most filmmakers, all while vigilantly minding what they say.
May 31, 2013
The film reaches an unexpected crescendo in the final ten minutes or so, as Panahi follows his doorman on rubbish-collection routine. Unexpectedly cathartic, this sequence is a powerful testament to Panahi's filmmaking dexterity, his capacity to find poetic substance in the most ordinary of situations. THIS IS NOT A FILM is built from nothing, and yet every moment has a powerful urgency to it.
October 26, 2012