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title: "The Circle [DVD]"
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# The Circle [DVD]

**Brand:** nargess mamizadehmaryiam palvin almanijafar panahi
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Product description          A woman gives birth to a baby girl. Little does she know but she and her daughter are already unwanted. Three women are released from prison and their need for money leads them to take desperate measures. An unmarried woman seeking an abortion is rejected from her father's house by the violent threats of her brothers. Their crimes are vague, their guilt or innocence unimportant. Their paths cross, the suspense of their intrigues heightens. Their plights are often too tragically similar. Their world is one of constant surveillance bureaucracy and age-old inequalities. But this stifling world cannot extinguish the spirit strength and courage of the circle of women. Farsi language with English subtitles. Color, Approximate Running Time 91 minutes, Not Rated. Special Features include interactive menus, scene access, director interview, optional subtitles, trailers, weblinks, and DVD-ROM essay.             .com          It's a girl. The first words spoken in Jafar Panahi's The Circle should be celebratory, but instead the mood of the scene is mournful. The relatives will be furious. Director Jafar Panahi leaves the innocence of his delightful The White Balloon behind in this harrowing, passionate portrait of the plight women endured in Iran before the easing of strict Muslim law. His vision of women scrambling through streets and dodging cops like fugitives in a police state is more of a nightmarish fable than a realist drama, but no less affecting for it. Panahi drifts through the stories of a handful of women recently released from prison (their crimes are left ominously vague) with an easy grace and an angry sense of injustice that brings us full circle: back to prison, where a cell door shuts with a deafening clang that reverberates through the credits and beyond. --Sean Axmaker

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## Customer Reviews

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    the most important educational movie Ive ever watched
  

*by K***. on Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2019*

This is a sad but true movie and I reccomend it to anyone interested in human rights  and learning about Sharia law and life in Sharia governed countries . Every sociology class  and political science class should be studying it

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    It's ok...
  

*by M***E on Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2002*

If you are used to American movies, don't be upset with this one. It's a different kind of movie from a culture very different from the one westerners are used to. A lot of this movie was just watching these women, and seeing their sad lives intermingle. If you want to see a good Iranian film, try The Hidden Half or Leila. They were much more interesting.

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    Worthwhile but confusing film about women's lives in Iran
  

*by L***C on Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2001*

This Iranian film, is banned in Iran, consists of several intertwining stories of women, all living the sad realities of the circle of life that traps them again and again.  I understand it was filmed at night, in secret, using non-professional actors and smuggled out of Iran for the Venice Film Festival where it won the Golden Lion Award.The camera is obviously hand held as it follows these non-professional actresses around.  Their faces shine out from their chadors - real, unpretty and blemished.  One of the women has a huge discolored bruise on the her face.  Another woman's face is deeply creased.  There eyes are huge and expressive.  The film begins with a woman's offscreen screams behind the title and credits.  At first I think she is being tortured.  And then there is a cry of a baby and we know she has just given birth.  "It's a girl" says the hospital nurse to the grandmother who is immediately saddened.  "The family will insist on divorce," she says.  "They expected a boy."  Thus sets the tone of the film which now shifts to three women huddled together in a phone booth desperately trying to call someone who is not at home.  They are worried and afraid as they hide from authorities, especially since one of them gets arrested.  It takes a while for the audience to find out that they have just escaped from prison.  Their stories are never clear.  We don't know what their crimes were.  We don't know much about them at all.  But we do follow them through the city as they try to cope with all the restrictions around them and interact with other women in equally awful circumstances.Without the proper papers, or without a man by their side, women can't travel.  Certainly they can't raise a child alone.  One woman tries to get an abortion but is turned away because she needs a husband's permission. One woman actually abandons her small daughter on a city street.  The audience sees pieces of stories such as the woman who buys a man's wedding shirt although the audience never finds out what the back story is or who the shirt is for.  And we never get to meet the woman who has borne the child in the first scene.  The city is filmed as a bustling but hostile environment without any hope for these women.  There is no joy in the film.  Only sadness.  And the script seems nonexistent with pieces of conversation that don't seem related to any of the stories.  Everywhere there is misery without one bit of relief for the women or the audience.I saw this film in a theater and found it extremely difficult to watch.  Indeed, so did other people because many of them just stood up and walked out. Without a specific story to follow, I felt strangely remote from what was happening on the screen.  but perhaps that was the director, Jafar Panahi's intent. The film does work as a political statement but I needed more details in the script to be able to identify with these sad and remote women.  This is obviously a worthwhile film, but it is just too confusing for my tastes.

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