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Taxi

7.0/ 10

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2015

Release Year

81 min

Runtime

Comedy
Drama

Overview

A yellow cab is driving through the vibrant and colourful streets of Tehran. Very diverse passengers enter the taxi, each candidly expressing their views while being interviewed by the driver who is no one else but the director Jafar Panahi himself. His camera placed on the dashboard of his mobile film studio captures the spirit of Iranian society through this comedic and dramatic drive…

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Keywords

taxi
taxi driver
passenger
teheran (tehran), iran
mockumentary
poverty
iran
fake documentary
subjective camera
found footage
censorship
metaphor
curious
sharia law
pseudo-documentary

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Reviews(2)

7.5avg rating
Reno

Reno

@Rangan

February 24, 2016

8
8/10

> Roaming around Tehran in a taxi for 80 minutes. This is one of the unique film, and the filmmaking I have seen. It is a docudrama, starred and directed by Jafar Panahi. It is my first film of his and I'm very impressed. I also learnt he was banned from making movies and to leave the country sin

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

March 20, 2026

7
7/10

Who’d be a Tehrani taxi driver, eh? Well banned film-maker Jafar Panahi used this “disguise” to mount a camera on his dashboard and document some of the characters who hail his services around the city. Now we’ve all taken cabs and found the driver to have an opinion on just about everything, but he

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