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    Offside

    Offside

    Presented by ArtsEmerson

    April 15, 2011

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    The most recent feature by the internationally acclaimed director of The Circle ("One of the best works of cinema to come out of Iran in the past decade"—A.O. Scott), Offside is Panahi's more lighthearted illustration of the fight for women's rights in Iran. A group of young female soccer fans—prevented by law from mixing with men and thus attending the match—disguise themselves as boys in an attempt to sneak into Tehran's Azadi Stadium and watch their team battle Bahrain in a qualifying game for the World Cup. Before the match begins, the girls are arrested at the check point and put into a holding pen, where they can hear the roar of the crowd but cannot see the field. Left to cheer along, blindly, the women debate the logic of the law banning them from the stadium, winning the sympathy of the guards bound by duty to keep them captives. Offside's "rich, pointed comedy arises from the sense that all of them, men and women alike, are trapped in an absurd, insoluble predicament" (A.O. Scott).


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        Paramount Center: Bright Family Screening Room

        559 Washington St.
        Boston, MA 02111

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        April 15, 2011

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        7pm

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