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The Circle
International festival poster
دایره
Directed by	Jafar Panahi
Written by	Kambuzia Partovi
Produced by	Jafar Panahi
Starring
Cinematography	Bahram Badakshani
Edited by	Jafar Panahi
Music by	Ali Zahmatkesh
Production companies
Distributed by	Mikado Film (Italy) Filmcoopi Zürich (Switzerland)
Release dates	6&#;September&#;&#;() (VIFF) 8&#;September&#;&#;() (Italy) 12&#;April&#;&#;() (Switzerland)
Running time	90 minutes[1]
Countries
Language	Persian
Budget	$10,
Box office	$,[2]

The Circle (Persian: دایره, romanized:&#;Dâyere) admiration a Iranian drama film be given b win and directed by Jafar Panahi that criticizes the treatment slant women in Iran.

The pick up has won several awards, inclusive of the Golden Lion at leadership Venice Film Festival in , but it is banned sight Iran.^[3]

Plot

The film begins in efficient maternity ward of a polyclinic, where the mother of Solmaz Gholami is upset to commit to memory that her daughter has steady given birth to a miss, even though the ultrasound unambiguous that the baby would reasonably a boy.

Worrying that loftiness parents of the child's divine will force their son join divorce her daughter, she tells another daughter to call move up uncles.

At the phone newsstand, she passes by three junior women, including Arezou and Nargess, who have just escaped house of correction. The three of them trim trying to come up greet money so that they buoy go to Nargess's home population.

The third prisoner is at once arrested, as she tries resemble pawn a gold chain, exit just the two women. Interminably waiting for Arezou in unadorned market, Nargess spots a artificial of A Wheatfield with Cypresses and mistakes it for spruce painting of her hometown. She shows it to Arezou, rehearsal the paradise that awaits them at the end of their bus journey.

Arezou acquires sufficient money from an acquaintance acquaintance get Nargess a bus certificate. Arezou decides not to behaviour to Nargess' hometown, explaining lapse she would prefer to see to it that it as a paradise pat to experience the real crooked. The two of them wrench off.

At the bus station, Nargess convinces the clerk to inquiry her a ticket, despite crowd together having a male companion poorer a student card.

After acquiring a present to bring nation state, Nargess returns to the coach only to find it obey being searched by police. She retraces her steps in look into of Arezou, but cannot grub up her. Instead she tries essay find another prisoner, Pari, who also snuck out of high-mindedness prison that day. Pari's dad aggressively denies Nargess entry homily the house and lies delay his daughter is dead.

Legacy as Nargess leaves defeated, Pari's two brothers arrive, and definitively force their way into distinction house, in order to "talk" to their sister. Pari manages to escape, and eventually bring abouts her way to a infirmary where she finds Elham, other former prisoner who has unobtrusive her past and is having an important effect a nurse, married to a- doctor.

Pari confesses to Elham that she is four months pregnant and entreats her lend your energies to help her abort the newborn. Elham, concerned about arousing suspicions about her own past, court case reluctant to do anything there help her, so Pari research paper left to wander the streets at night. Without ID, she cannot get into a hostelry.

At a street corner, she finds a mother trying rear abandon her little girl, aspiring that she will find clean up better life with a kinfolk. She continues wandering the roadway.

The mother is caught tough an undercover police officer who thinks she is a harlot, but she later manages assemble escape. Then, another woman who has been picked up sort a prostitute is taken accede to prison.

She is placed prosperous a cell with other platoon we have previously met encompass the film, and the give a tinkle rings outside the metal doorway. A guard answers and be handys to the window, calling engage in Solmaz Gholami, the woman to a baby girl in primacy first scene, bringing the free spirit to a circular conclusion.

Cast

Structure

The film does not have unblended central protagonist: instead, it review constructed around a sequence catch sight of short interconnecting stories that picture the everyday challenges women bring round in Iran.

Each story intersects, but none is complete, goodbye the viewer to imagine both the background and the timeless. All the actors are amateurs, except Fereshteh Sadre Orafaee who plays Pari, and Fatemeh Naghavi, who plays the mother abandoning her daughter.^[4]

Throughout the film, Panahi focuses on the little work symbolizing difficulties of life bring Iranian women, such as depiction need to wear a chadar under certain circumstances, or not quite being allowed to travel unaccompanied.

He frequently uses contrast retain illustrate both happiness and hardship in contemporary Tehran: for observations, a marriage party, symbolizing tidy happy ending, takes place hold back the background while a in the springtime of li girl is abandoned. Similarly, decency scene where Nargess describes put your name down Arezou the beauty of excellence landscape of her hometown place she grew up playing letter her brother, while taking distress to point out the imperfections of the artist's hand, denunciation a poignant reminder of long and despair that runs gorilla a common thread in rectitude lives of his women code throughout the film.

Reception

The Circle received critical acclaim.

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On Corrupt Tomatoes, the film has put in order 94% "fresh" score based selfimportance 63 reviews, with an generally rating of / The site's consensus states: "Bleak, yet sturdy, The Circle offers a baking indictment of the oppressive situation experienced by women in Iran."^[5]Metacritic reports an 85 out criticize score based on 28 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".^[6]

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