The title is a put-on, like the Magritte painting of a pipe.
This is a film, of sorts, but more pertinently it's a sly act of defiance from a film-maker who's slipped tyranny's gag. Jafar Panahi, the brilliant Iranian director of Offside and The Circle, was given a six-year prison sentence and a 20-year ban from film-making after he pledged his support to the opposition party in Iran's 2009 election.
ANTHONY QUINN FRIDAY 30 MARCH 2012
The Independent
This is Not A Film (U)
http://www.independent.co.uk
The title is a put-on, like the Magritte painting of a pipe.
