Taxi poster

Taxi( 2015)

TV-MAComedyDrama
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Overview

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…

    Top Billed Cast

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      Jafar Panahi

      Self

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      Hana Saeidi

      Self

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      Nasrin Sotoudeh

      Woman with roses

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    A review by Reno

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    Written by Reno on Wed Feb 24 2016
    > Roaming around Tehran in a taxi for 80 minutes. This is one of the unique film, and the filmmaking I have seen. It is a docudrama, starred and directed by Jafar Panahi. It is my first film of his and I'm very impressed. I also learnt he was banned from making movies and to leave the country since last 5 years. But he took all the legal route possible to keep making them, and this movie is the result of it. He had made a couple of them before this, but with this he came outdoors to capture the streets of the Iranian capital. This movie entirely set in a taxi, well, the cameras never leav...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

    -

    Revenue

    -

    Keywords

    • taxi
    • taxi driver
    • passenger
    • teheran (tehran), iran
    • mockumentary
    • poverty
    • iran
    • fake documentary
    • subjective camera
    • found footage
    • censorship
    • metaphor
    • sharia law
    • pseudo-documentary