Kambozia Partovi

TIFF 2013 | Closed Curtain (Jafar Panahi & Kambozia Partovi, Iran)—Masters

By Michael Sicinski [SPOILERS follow.] This Is Not a Film was a hybrid documentary wherein Jafar Panahi showed us what happens when a restless creative mind tries and fails to negotiate various end-runs around the absurd, maddening restrictions imposed upon him. In many respects, the more Panahi “failed”—famously walking off camera in tears, refusing to…
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