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Jafar Panahi (Actor, Director), Hana Saeidi (Actor) Rated: Suitable for 12 years and over Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Jafar Panahi, Hana Saeidi
  • Directors: Jafar Panahi
  • Format: PAL
  • Language: Persian
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: New Wave Films
  • DVD Release Date: 22 Feb. 2016
  • Run Time: 82 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B017EOYULE
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Persian documentary from film-maker Jafar Panahi. After being banned from making films by the Iranian government and placed under house arrest, Panahi poses as a taxi driver and drives around the busy streets of Tehran picking up passengers and recording their conversations. Along with his diverse subjects, who include teachers, students and pirate DVD sellers, Panahi discusses the social challenges that Iranian citizens face on a daily basis.

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4.0 out of 5 starsTake a taxi through the streets of Tehran with banned director Jafar Panahi
By Matthew J. Parker TOP 1000 REVIEWER on 27 Feb. 2016
Format: DVD
Taxi Tehran is the third film made by director Jafar Panahi since being banned by his home nation (Iran) from making films for the next 20 years. Using whatever is at his disposal (video recordings by phone for example), Panahi has continued to work in the industry he loves and create something special as a rewsult, with the films usually being smuggled out of the country for distribution.

In this movie Jafar travels through Tehran in the guise of a taxi driver, piucking up passengers along the way (some recognise him, some don't). He films them from a camera attached to the dashboard that he can either show what is happening through the windscreen or turn it onto his 'customers'. It gives a snapshot of life on the streets of Tehran and, although the visitors to his taxi are actors/friends/family it feels real by recognising that Jafar is in disguise and using his real-life predicament as the 'plot' of the movie.

Though not just as 'real' as 'This is Not a Film' where Jafar is under house arrest but filming his actions, this is still an essential watch. Admittedly if you come to the film with no idea if who Jafar Panahi is or what situation he has been involved in in the last few years it will probably be more difficult to follow the discussions that go on. The characters who enter the taxi all feature on the cover and you can at least pick your favourite. For me, I love the two dotty old ladies carrying the fish in the bowl.
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4.0 out of 5 starsInventive and moving film from one of Iran’s ‘banned’ film makers
By Tommy Dooley TOP 50 REVIEWER on 28 Feb. 2016
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Jafar Panahi has been making films for a while that have annoyed the Islamic Republic of Iran’s authority- ‘Offside’ being my favourite. This has brought him a ban from making films. So he has made a film of him as a Taxi driver – not a very well informed driver by all accounts. He then drives around Tehran picking up customers and listening to their stories.

In Tehran it seems that people often share a taxi and that results in some quite fiery exchanges where opinions differ. It seemed to me to be a bit obvious that these are actors. However, I have since found out they are all uncredited non professional actors – whose identity remains anonymous. It is what they say and the stories they tell that make this fascinating. By allowing them to speak he is peeling back the layers of Iranian society and exposing the control and corruption of a State that suppress all ‘sordid reality’ – a subject matter that is banned from ‘distributable’ films and ‘heroes don’t wear ties’ but they do have Islamic names only.

Jafar Panahl said at the Berlin Film Festival "Nothing can prevent me from making films since when being pushed to the ultimate corners I connect with my inner-self and, in such private spaces, despite all limitations; the necessity to create becomes even more of an urge."

If he can make such a moving and thought provoking film under such restrictions then I can only wonder at the possible results were his abilities given free rein. If you want to learn from film as well as watch something unique then I am sure you will get a lot out of seeing this unusual film.
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4.0 out of 5 starsPanahi's daring is infectious and humbling, a challenging film that fills you with hope.
By dipesh parmar TOP 1000 REVIEWER on 13 Mar. 2016
Format: DVD
Iranian film director Jafar Panahi becomes a taxi driver for his new film ‘Taxi’. Part documentary, part fiction, Panahi puts the camera on himself and his customers.

Panahi picks up various people, filming their interactions and conversations whilst occasionally joining in as well. The customers are a wide cross-section of people who all go about their daily business. We have a male chauvinist, a liberal, a couple in a car accident, a dvd bootlegger, two bizarre women with a goldfish bowl, an old friend, and the very entertaining Hana who is Panahi’s 11 year-old niece. Taking every opportunity to mock and attack her uncle, this Frappacino-drinking young lady wants a subject for a short film for school. It must obey Iranian laws on what is “distributable”, i.e. showing what’s “real but not a negative real”. Hana can’t grasp why her reality can still be out of bounds, an all too familiar shackle for Panahi who has a 20-year ban on filmmaking in Iran.

The tone of the film is largely light-hearted and often very funny, but ‘Taxi’ wouldn’t be a Panahi film without any social, cultural and political commentary on Iran and its government. His conversation with Nasrin Sotoudeh, a renowned human rights lawyer and activist, just shows how much fear still persists in the country. For all his good natured and playful manner, it can take just a voice in the distance for him to tremble from past traumas. The abiding memory of ‘Taxi’ is one of people simply living their lives and remaining positive with the hope that their version of freedom could be regained.

Panahi avoids getting angry or frustrated at the establishment he despises, he doesn’t even seek to mock them for the many hypocrisies that plagues his country. ‘Taxi’ is another two fingers to anyone who has inflicted pain and restriction on Panahi, his daring is infectious and humbling, a challenging film that fills you with hope.
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5.0 out of 5 starsReally worth a watch.
By Amazon Customer on 20 Mar. 2016
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Light handed realism,such a good film without affectation and a real heart. If only western films were so good,real gem.
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