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Taxi

2015 · 1h 21m · Not Rated Comedy, Drama
Directed by Jafar Panahi

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A yellow cab is driving through the vibrant and colourful streets of Tehran. Very diverse passengers enter the taxi, each candidly expressing their views while being interviewed by the driver who is no one else but the director Jafar Panahi himself. His camera placed on the dashboard of his mobile film studio captures the spirit of Iranian society through this comedic and dramatic drive…

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96%
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Fresh

Panahi's status as a martyr for his art could have gulled him into loftiness and pride; and yet, by some miracle, Taxi stays as modest as his smile, the point being not to recruit us to his cause but to put us on the side of his compatriots.

Anthony Lane, New Yorker
Fresh

Taxi is easily the director's most accessible work to date.

Scott Marks, San Diego Reader
Fresh

Jafar Panahi's Taxi looks onto a world where the social order and the spiritual order are at odds, in flux, where the conversations are sometimes cutting, sometimes comic, sometimes troubled, sometimes profound.

Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
Fresh

Panahi looks for new perspectives everywhere he goes, and this search reflects his unwavering devotion to cinema, which has the power to transmit those perspectives to the world.

Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader
Fresh

Those who've followed Panahi's career over the decades will catch echoes of and references to his earlier movies, and at times "Taxi" is as much a tour of his filmography as it is of Tehran.

Ty Burr, Boston Globe

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