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Plot Summary
Acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi bravely defies his 20-year ban on filmmaking yet again, and stunningly, he has created a masterpiece that not only lives up to his earlier, pre-ban work but surpasses it in many ways. In a secluded house by the sea with the curtains shut, a screenwriter hides from the world with only his dog as company. The tranquility is abruptly broken one night by the arrival of a young woman fleeing from the authorities. Refusing to leave, she takes refuge in the house. But come dawn, another unexpected presence will change everything.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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90%- Reviews Counted: 29
- Fresh: 26
- Rotten: 3
- Average Rating: 7.9/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: On one level, the film ... is a mischievous, Pirandellian entertainment. It is also an allegory, dark but not despairing, of the creative spirit under political pressure, and of the ways the imagination can be both a refuge and a place of confinement.
Fresh: Less satisfying than his previous pic, yet still a bold, melancholy statement.
Fresh: "Closed Curtain" is richly allegorical, but the film succeeds even more as an exiled artist's reassurance that the law can't stamp out art.
Fresh: A complex film-within-a-film structure uses the favorite techniques of reflexive Iranian cinema to assert the need to recount reality.
