“In Prison, I Had Some Peace of Mind”: Jafar Panahi on Closed Curtain

Dogs as pets have been banned in Iran, which provides the starting premise for Jafar Panahi’s Closed Curtain. A screenwriter (Kambozia Partovi, also the co-director) at a seaside villa has a dog smuggled into his house by friends. Once the animal’s inside, the man systematically draws curtains over windows on all three floors. The opening of Jafar Panahi’s Closed Curtain fictionalizes the necessary circumstances of its production: working in secret, the director was forced to draw the curtains for as much of the shoot as possible to make sure no one could see what was going on inside. There are […]

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