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Offside

Director: Jafar Panahi

Cast: Sima Mobarak Shahi, Safar Samandar, Shayesteh Irani, Mohammad Kheyrabadi

(Sony Pictures Classics, 2006) Rated: PG

US DVD release date: 28 August 2007 (Sony)

[23 March 2007]

by Cynthia Fuchs

PopMatters Film and TV Editor

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Jafar Panahi's Offside uses handheld mobile framing and non-professional actors to create a natural-seeming rhythm, immersing you in multiple experiences, introducing a number of characters all connected by events, desires, and circumstances.

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