As an avid fan of Iranian film I can't wait to go to see this film. For anyone who hasn't seen any of Abbas Kiarostami's films, or any other Iranian films for that matter, be prepared to be amazed.
Most Iranian films come in the epic 3hr long format (well, at least that's how long they feel sometimes!) so this one at a mere 90mins is short by industry standards. They have the most beautiful way of drawing you right into the story and you will leave feeling like you contributed somehow to the telling of it.
This one seems to be no exception. In fact the film is even about an audience of more than 100 women who are deeply absorbed in watching a film we never see. Based on an Persian poem as famous as Romeo and Juliet, Shirin is a love story and 'offers a feast for the imagination of a wholly unexpected kind'.
'What matters here is the art of screen acting, the perceptiveness of the camera and the power of cinema to manipulate. Moreover, Kiarostami confounds the fundamentalists by celebrating the expressive beauty of the female face in evocative close-ups ... As a powerful artistic experiment, this is near perfect.' EmpireThe BFI offer what promises to be a feast for the eyes from 26 June.
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami with Mahtab Keramati, Golshifteh Farahani, Mahnaz Afshar, Niki Karimi, Juliette Binoche
Visit www.bfi.org.uk/releases for more information.
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