1997 · drama · children · meta
The Mirror
Directed by Jafar Panahi1h 34m1997
When a young girl's mother doesn't meet her after school, she tries to navigate the streets of Tehran by herself.
Our read: The Mirror (1997) reads as a warm, measured, inventive drama · children · meta entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, measured, gentle drama / children, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- measured
- inventive
- signature
- intimate
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How The Mirror feels to watch.
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“You want a simple, observant story of a resourceful child navigating Tehran alone.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if a child's vulnerability in an urban setting makes you anxious.
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