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Jafar Panahi, Kambuzia Partovi Irã, 2013
Everything in the second part becomes a critique on the deficiencies of the first part. We see what it is like to be kneecapped at your prime, and Panahi suggests that the only thing you can do is to examine the wound and maybe pick at it. "I know times are really tough, but it'll get better," says Panahi's friend. For his sake, and our benefit, we hope so too... [Closed Curtain is] a powerful meditation on creativity.
setembro 3, 2015
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It's party a Godardian exposé of the pointlessness of artifice, partly a sorrowful gesture of creative indifference and partly an artsy version of one of those horror movies in which all the characters turn out to be elements of the same troubled consciousness. Only some moments shine through the general murk of a film whose very ineffectiveness might make its most important point, which is that a great artist is being damaged, his light dimmed, his very will to make things wekeaned.
julho 31, 2015
The film zigzags from the petrifying to the playful, turning on a dime from creepy, character-driven drama to subtle meta-theatrics featuring Panahi himself—yet the entire enterprise functions coherently as a film about emotional and creative limbo. Panahi has again proven that a great artist can make even confinement seem expansive.
janeiro 16, 2015
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.
julho 29, 2014
This Is Not a Film is superb, but Closed Curtain shows his inspiration unraveling when it's required to feed on itself: it wouldn't be too cruel to retitle it This Is Barely A Film. Still, the value of Closed Curtain is the very ineloquence of its cri de coeur. Where its predecessor defiantly showed that Panahi could take it, here the stresses show: they're tearing him apart, and it shouldn't happen to any artist.
julho 10, 2014
While it has no budget, no sets and only one professional actor... it's much closer to being a "real" Panahi movie than the 2011 "This Is Not a Film," which was supposedly smuggled out of Iran on a thumb drive baked into a cake... "Closed Curtain," on the other hand, combines elements of thriller, domestic comedy and frame-breaking documentary realism, and offers a loving portrayal of ordinary Iranian society, as it functions below the surface under the theocracy.
julho 10, 2014
Panahi himself arrives later, though his relationship to the screenwriter is unclear: is the latter a product of the former's imagination? Are they aware of their presences side by side? Who's the specter and what's real? Closed Curtain repeatedly worries and rearranges these relationships and ambiguities. It's both dazzling and suffocating: as it becomes clear that what's going on could be infinitely/indefinitely tweaked, it's hard not to want Panahi to wrap it up and settle on a takeaway.
julho 9, 2014
...This startling moment recalls a similar one in the middle of Panahi's "The Mirror" when the little girl playing the film's main character suddenly declares she's not acting any more and runs away from the film location, to be followed by other cameras. That "coup de cinema," though, took us from fiction to something closer to documentary, whereas this one transitions to a kind of subjective surrealism—call it a documentary about the inside of Panahi's head in recent years.
julho 9, 2014
Its final half-hour meanders and sputters in order to prove that—even with access to equipment, actors, and a small crew—Panahi is too cut off from society to make a satisfying or cohesive film. It doesn't work, because he can't. In short, Closed Curtain is deliberately frustrating, especially because its early scenes showcase a filmmaker making the most of limited means.
julho 9, 2014
His first response was the acidly titled "This Is Not a Film," a semi-documentary made in his own apartment... Panahi has now made a semi-narrative, filmed inside his Caspian Sea vacation house; it is a slower and even bleaker film... When Panahi himself walks quietly into the frame, it's the visual equivalent of a crash of cymbals.
julho 9, 2014
Peel the artichoke, beyond the visual doublings and textual enigmas... and you may come to wonder, as I did, if the fictionalized "realness" of Panahi's movie, and how it expresses his life's dilemma, isn't just more simulacra and self-publicity, as authentic or inauthentic as a bedroom YouTube spat or activist Twitter chain. If so, so what? The reality of Closed Curtain is entirely off-screen, in the grip of Sharia fanaticism, and no less vital for that.
julho 9, 2014
So where This Is Not a Film was triumphant, a portrait of a man banned from creating continuing to do so in proud, uplifting fashion, Closed Curtain is its dark flip side, the trauma that ensues from a prisoner stuck with own inexpressible thoughts. Like the author-protagonist of Flann O'Brien's At Swim, Two Birds who's pestered and abused by his own creations, the Panahi avatar here is pressed into a confined space with the animated products of his own imagination.
julho 7, 2014