Shirin (2008) Label

Release Date

01/20/2008

Director

Abbas Kiarostami

IMDB Rank

6.8

Pegah AhangaraniWoman in audience

Mahnaz AfsharWoman in audience

Juliette BinocheWoman in audience

Golshifteh FarahaniWoman in audience

Leila HatamiWoman in audience

Behnaz JafariWoman in audience

Mahtab keramatiWoman in audience

Niki KarimiWoman in audience

Overview

A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the text -- long a favorite in Persia and the Middle East -- remains invisible to the viewer of the film, the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching the show.