My mother's hands
The successive close-up images of the individual faces of veiled Iranian women (and French performer Juliette Binoche) sitting in a cinema watching a film- are powerful in their subtle gesture and emotion. Viewers (or spectators) of Kiarostami's film understand that a face still doesn't give everything away, we can never truly understand these women or their emotion.
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| Still of Binoche in Shirin |
