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Salaam Cinema (1995)

Documentary | 75 minutes
3,50 29 votes

Genre: Documentary / Drama

Duration: 75 minuten

Alternative title: سلام سينم

Country: Iran

Directed by: Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Starst: Shaghayeh Djodat, Behzad Dorani and Feizola Gashghai

IMDb score: 7,6 (2.343)

Releasedate: 14 April 1995

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Salaam Cinema plot

On the occasion of the centenary of cinema, Makhmalbaf wants to make a film about people who want to become film actors. They will play in the film and at the same time form the subject of the film. Makhmalbaf places an advertisement in the newspaper with the result that 5000 people are waiting at the Islamic Film Center in Tehran on the shooting day. Makhmalbaf tries to calm the crowd, but in the pushing and pulling, people are overrun and people are injured. The auditions that follow show the people in groups, meanwhile the camera is running, blurring the dividing line between fiction and reality.

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Ode to cinema and its beauty in its purest form. It is fascinating to see what the love of film does to all these people (a man who pretends to be blind from the start of his audition, a man who lives in silence for months to play a deaf person, a woman who cries within 10 seconds if asked)

The many ridiculous questions, the humanity he exposes, and the humiliating tasks that Makhmalbaf makes his audience perform, also make it a kind of torture for the viewer to watch. No room for moral values (are you an actor or a human?) The film is further thrown into a mixer thrown, infinitely fascinating mixture of fiction and reality.

Brilliant. 4.5*

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