The Circle
film by Panahi [2000]
Also known as: “Dayereh”
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discussed in biography
- In Jafar Panahi
…political turn with Dayereh (2000; The Circle), about women in contemporary Iran. Two of the central characters are convicts escaping from prison, which allowed Panahi to point out the irony that they had exchanged their small jail for what some would consider the larger jail that is being a woman…
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