Every critic had given this five stars. It is a quite short film (80 minutes), all set in the taxi of the suppressed Iranian director, Jafar Panahi. It consists of a series of episodes, starting with the bigot and self-confessed mugger in the front seat, plus an older and more liberal lady in the back; then a bootleg-dvd seller interrupted by a badly injured man who records his will on Panahi's phone. We move on to two old ladies taking goldfish to a lake before concluding with a long section with Panahi's niece. Finally, we end up back at the lake where the taxi goes to return to the goldfish ladies a purse they had left.
It was an engaging film to watch. My only reservation is that I was quite unclear how much was staged and how much spontaneous. The set-up suggested spontaneity but the ending, where the equipment appeared to be stolen, confirmed my doubts.
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