1995 · documentary · drama · iranian
Salaam Cinema
Directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf1h 15m1995
Makhmalbaf puts an advertisement in the papers calling for an open casting for his next movie. However when hundreds of people show up, he decides to make a movie about the casting and the screen tests of the would-be actors.
Our read: Salaam Cinema (1995) reads as a neutral, steady, inventive documentary · drama · iranian entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, steady, measured documentary / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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