January 28, 2013

This Is Not A Film

January 28, 2013/ Maysles

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This Is Not A Film

Jafar Panahi, 2012, 75 min.

This clandestinely made documentary, shot partially on an iPhone and smuggled into France in a cake for a last-minute submission to Cannes, depicts the day-to-day life of acclaimed director Jafar Panahi (Offsite, The Circle). While appealing his sentence – six years in prison and a 20-year ban from filmmaking – fellow director Mojtaba Mirtahmasb (Lady of the Roses) visits Mr. Panahi at his Tehran apartment and films him talking to his family and lawyer on the phone, reflecting on the art of filmmaking, meeting some of his neighbors and even interacting with an inquisitive iguana.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajOgE_BPLVU

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