The Circle
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Directed by Jafar Panahi | 91 mins | 2000
Interweaving the travails of a handful of women in Tehran who, over the course of a single day, find themselves encroached upon in ways both subtle and pronounced by the nation’s patriarchal mores—with attention given to the difficulties of buying a bus ticket alongside those of getting an abortion—Panahi’s Golden Lion-winning third feature represents a masterful and moving expansion on the single-track narratives of "The White Balloon" (1995) and "The Mirror" (1997).
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