When Jafar Panahi dances with the bears and gives a masterpiece
What we haven’t said enough about No bearsthe admirable film whose author, Jafar Panahi, is imprisoned, incommunicado, in the terrible prison of Evin, in Teheran, it is this. Voices from Iran. His language. His musicality. Its hissing softness which suddenly amplifies into emphatic and heady vowels. His song. Its weak inflections. Its slow cadences. Persian. … Read more