Taxi

    Taxi
    2015

    Synopsis

    A yellow cab is driving through the vibrant and colourful streets of Tehran. Very diverse passengers enter the taxi, each candidly expressing their views while being interviewed by the driver who is no one else but the director Jafar Panahi himself. His camera placed on the dashboard of his mobile film studio captures the spirit of Iranian society through this comedic and dramatic drive…

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    Cast

    • Jafar PanahiSelf
    • Hana SaeidiSelf
    • Nasrin SotoudehWoman with roses

    Recommendations

    • 100

      CineVue

      At 82 minutes, this is a brisk but hugely powerful work that is cinema of the oppressed par excellence.
    • 100

      Variety

      A film of quiet but profound outrage, laughing on the surface, but howling in anger just beneath.
    • 100

      Screen Daily

      This is a delightful surprise, and though it is even more minimalistic than his last two illegal exports, This Is Not A film and Closed Curtains, it is also more mature, and better calibrated and - at the risk of annoying art house patrons who often hate this term - more entertaining than the other two.
    • 100

      Slant Magazine

      Jafar Panahi spotlights the act of filmmaking as an act of resistance as well as a possible source of propaganda and manipulation.
    • 90

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Amazingly, Panahi turns the utterly simple, economical format of a camera inside a car into something relevant to his own artistic state and full of eye-opening insights into Iranian society.
    • 90

      Village Voice

      There's something wonderful in how these scenes, so breezy and funny, reveal so much.
    • 83

      The Playlist

      An insightful, enjoyable, absorbing ride that stands as a testament to its director's lively, ungovernable storytelling imagination.
    • 83

      The A.V. Club

      Every new movie by Jafar Panahi is a miniature coup, an act of fearless political defiance.

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