Jafar Panahi, like other Iranian directors of his time, found a way to bring people's everyday lives to the big screen in order to discuss larger social issues.
The director pretends to be a taxi driver, transporting ordinary people of Tehran from place to place, witnessing their struggles and worries. He is often called a terrible taxi driver because he has trouble finding the right directions to his passengers' desired locations.
"Taste of Cherry," a film made much earlier by…
I can endlessly go through layers and details in which the director brings all the small and big problems of Hungarian society and school. It had almost identical similarities with the school I studied and at some point I felt like I was reviewing the traumatic events of my school life. I love that there was willingness to understand those teachers and not a mistake to throw all the shade and responsibility to them. In the end it's the environment…
Most of the scenes created an unbearable amount of cringe. The only positive thing was the joke about gluten but they ruined it as well by using the same joke twice))
