OFFSIDE / Jafar Panahi (2006)
May 29th, 2007 by Scott Marks
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Offside (2006)
Directed by: Jafar Panahi
Written by: Jafar Panahi & Shadmehr Rastin
Cast: Sima Mobarak-Shahi, Ayda Sadegi, Shayesteh Irani & Golnaz Farmani
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1
Running Time: 93 min.
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Feminist, Anti-Sports
Rating: 
The majority of the action in this Iranian comedy/drama takes place in two locations. For the first two-thirds we observe a makeshift military holding center in the upper corner of a bustling soccer arena where women, prohibited from watching the game, are held.Once the match ends, we ride with several of the detainees on the way to the police station.
That’s it.
93 minutes and not one special effect. The cast is filled with unfamiliar faces, none of whom are ever called by name. Even though filmed at the Azadi Stadium in the middle of a World Cup match between Iran and Bahrain, we never spend more than five minutes inside of the arena. And unlike We are Marshall, Friday Night Lights or Invincible, the film does not conclude with a sporting event.
If there is a sharper, more compassionate and better made film to play San Diego this year, shoot off a flare to alert the film community.
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