These young men don’t pretend to act, rather they live within the real threat, without the intent of a melodramatic thriller. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 20, 2022

A rambling but powerful docu-style drama about underground Iranian indie...

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 19, 2021

The film is loosely structured, mostly out of necessity given the constraints of filming under constant threat, but this gives the film a sense of unpredictability.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 18, 2020

A bracing and vibrant film, one teeming with life and the overwhelming, sustaining power of artistic expression.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 5, 2019

As we listen to the various bands, Ghobadi offers us video montages of that city - shades of early-'80s M온라인카지노추천. The shots give us a feel for the texture of a sprawling metropolis defined by wealth and poverty, exuberance and repression.

| May 17, 2018

What really distinguishes the film-banned in Iran, it goes without saying-is the enormous risks these musicians take, which Ghobadi ultimately drives home with legitimate dramatic license.

| Jul 1, 2013

Semi-improvised and shot on the run, No One Knows About Persian Cats is undeniably rough around the edges, but its raw immediacy is exhilarating.

| Aug 2, 2012

An appealing cast of aspiring young musicians ostensibly play themselves in this naive, shapeless, but often fascinating 2009 drama.

| Dec 30, 2010

Moves forward with a carefree appreciation for music and the people who make it, and all the while, bitter reality is waiting in the background, waiting to take over.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 29, 2010

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| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 20, 2010

There's a real life-threatening risk being in this pic.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 3, 2010

If the whole enterprise seems underdeveloped, that's obviously in part a symptom of the system it gently but resoundingly critiques.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 17, 2010

If the movie contained nothing but musical performances, it would be worth the price of admission. Beyond that, it is about as good an explanation of why Iranian youth revolved as you like to find.

| May 21, 2010

It might have been a better idea for the makers of No One Knows About Persian Cats to make a straightforward documentary.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 20, 2010

No One Knows About Persian Cats ends on a sudden note of tragedy that almost ruins the exuberant spirit of everything that has preceded it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 19, 2010

I am loving No One Knows About Persian Cats, its moving story about real people who just want to play music, first rate production %u2013 it is hard to believe that this was all shot guerrilla style in the heart of Muslim Tehran %u2013 and terrific

| Original Score: A- | May 16, 2010

It's a slice of reality hidden under a narrative veneer, illustrating the plight of Iran's muzzled arts community. That's hard-to-resist stuff, and it makes Persian Cats purr.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 14, 2010

Ghobadi has emerged as a filmmaker whose gift for poetic realism was only equaled by an unerring sense of precisely when and how to break the viewer's heart.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 14, 2010

Over and over, the movie stops in its tracks to listen to musicians play, offering witness to their travails and ingenuity.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 13, 2010

Kind of like John Carney's 2006 hardscrabble charmer Once, only with morality police and sharia law.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 12, 2010