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- Release Date: 2008
- Runtime: 92 min
- Genre: Drama
- Starring: Golshifteh Farahani, Mahnaz Afshar, Taraneh Alidoosti, Juliette Binoche ... see all
- Director: Abbas Kiarostami
- Plot: 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... Read more
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| Oct 28, 2009Combustible Celluloid
But it's a mistake to suggest....in Iran it's a well-known classic star-crossed lovers tale, not unlike "Romeo & Juliet" in the West.....To most viewers, his new Shirin will perhaps be even more irritating than Five (2003), especially given....In any case, Shirin isn't nearly as dull as it sounds;.... ... Full Review
| Aug 28, 2008Hollywood Reporter, US
the women are watching a film is quite strong.....The melodramatic tale of star-crossed love is still engrossing....while others will succumb to a hypnotic series of beautiful faces and a charming fairy tale read on the soundtrack.....The story is skillfully read between the tragic.... ... Full Review
Channel 4 Film
Shirin is certainly bold.....It's also unwatchably tedious, arrogantly self-indulgent and -.... ... Full Review
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