Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
1)Makhmalbaf has worked in a variety of styles including neorealism and Expressionism.
2)He is the subject of the Abbas Kiarostami film Close-Up (1990) in which a man
who in real life impersonated Makhmalbaf reenacts how he duped a family
who takes him in.
Translation: There is space for all of you in Cinema!
In Salaam Cinema (1995)
1)Makhmalbaf shoots in a documentary style and shows the audition process of a film
he is casting.
2)He puts an ad in the paper and thousands of people show up.
3)They think they are auditioning for his next film and are unaware that the film is the
"audition."
In the following scene, Makhmalbaf asks a group of men auditioning for a role to replicate an action scene. One man explains his preference for melodramas over action films.
Salaam Cinema (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1995):
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A well-known Iranian director, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, plans to make a film for the celebration of the 100th anniversary of cinema. He placed an advertisement in a newspaper in order to hire one hundred actors. He has prepared 1000 application forms, but 5000 people show up. The result is a riot in which the applicants are trampled on and wounded. Mohsen Makhmalbaf auditions dozens of men and women in front of the camera; their statements, which are by turns funny and touching, reveal the reality of life in Iran. Thus, the director enables us to see and understand those intellectuals, students and children and above all the women, who can not normally be heard or seen. It shows, once again, that cinema is of vital importance in countries such as Iran.
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