No. Less violent than 92% of well-known films. This describes how the film comes across as a whole, measured against other well-known films; it is not a content list.

Barely. Less frightening than 84% of well-known films. This describes how the film comes across as a whole, measured against other well-known films; it is not a content list.

Yes. More sad than 75% of well-known films. This describes how the film comes across as a whole, measured against other well-known films; it is not a content list.

Is Shirin easy watching?

Somewhat. More comforting than 67% of well-known films. This describes how the film comes across as a whole, measured against other well-known films; it is not a content list.

Does Shirin end with hope?

About average. Almost exactly mid-range for a well-known film. This describes how the film comes across as a whole, measured against other well-known films; it is not a content list.

Shirin

Name: Shirin
Genre: Drama
Released: 2009
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 6.2
Cast: Taraneh Alidoosti, Golshifteh Farahani, Juliette Binoche, Leila Hatami, Zar Amir Ebrahimi

You are the screen, they are the audience.

Directed by Abbas Kiarostami

Produced by Kiarostami Foundation

200992 min6.2 / 10

A radically experimental meditation on spectatorship and emotion, where the invisible performance of a classical Persian love poem is entirely conveyed through the intimate, shifting expressions of women's faces.

A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the text -- long a favorite in Persia and the Middle East -- remains invisible to the viewer of the film, the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching the show.

Clusters

Reflective Life Stories Loneliness and Longing

Genres

Drama

Questions people ask

Is Shirin violent? No. Less violent than 92% of films.
Is Shirin scary? Barely. Less frightening than 84% of films.
Is Shirin sad? Yes. More sad than 75% of films.
Is Shirin easy watching? Somewhat. More comforting than 67% of films.
Does Shirin end with hope? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

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