The Circle (EOTWS)

End Of The Week Shorts #33 extract: The Circle (2000)



The Circle is a film that explores what it is to be a woman living outside of the control and supervision of men in Iran. 
With a sparse, hyperlinked structure, The Circle follows numerous women through a day that is overshadowed by a looming sense of inevitability and danger. And, as individual as each woman is, they are all linked by subtle rebellion and so all seem fated to meet the same end. As sprawling and elliptical as this story is presented to be, its structure is then self-contradicting: the free-form narrative path is stuck on circuitous track with one certain end. 
It is this relationship between form and content, between freedom and oppression, between chance and inevitability, that leaves this film so striking. Recommended.

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