Closed Curtain, in its deliberate irresolvability, may confirm the bleak argument made in This Is Not a Film. Panahi may not have the freedom to make the movies he'd like to be directing, but whatever he's doing (working with collaborators under considerable constraints), the result is, at turns, confounding, challenging, and extraordinary. It might be _more_ of a film than This Is Not a Film, and it is certainly, like Panahi's previous effort, an assured and powerful piece of filmmaking.
Chris Wisniewski
julho 29, 2014