The title of Iranian director Jafar Panahi's daring, cleverly structured film refers to both a physical locale — a public plaza in the heart of Tehran — and the film's ingenious story structure, which begins and ends with news of an Iranian woman who has just given birth. In between, Panahi offers a damning indictment of the lack of freedom experienced by women on several levels of Iranian society. The film opens at a bustling hospital where an expectant grandmother has just received devastating news: Her daughter has borne a baby girl, not the boy the doctors predicted. The grandmother knows her daughter's marriage is over — the disappointed in-laws w...
Released:
2000
Rated:
NR
Length:
91 mins