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Six Iranian girls disguise themselves as boys in order to enter Tehran's Azadi Stadium to watch the 2006 World Cup Asian zone qualifier between Iran and Bahrain. However, their presence is discovered ...( read more 
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MCT:August 11, 2008story of braveness of some cool teenagers in Iran who fight against pressure and double cross the guards.I adore these girls
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MCT:May 2, 2008So different from the hollywood movies. We just follow some iranian girls who cannot enter a football stadium. Tells a lot about how women are treated down there.
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MCT:April 8, 2008Only in that messed up country Iran can women get arrested for going to a ball game. What's wrong with you morons? It's effing soccer.
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MCT:April 4, 2008
In this movie you get to see the absurd vision of some male Muslims. Absolutely ridiculous and such views just make me angry. I wanted to shriek you fucking idiots in theatre. I think everyone wanted to do that.
Not a bad movie, but not a must either. Could be rated as boring but the movie actually made me long for the European Football Cup which is about to be played soon. I love European Football! I felt warm inside when watching this film. -
MCT:March 15, 2008
A wonderful experiment. There's a lot of improvisation going on since the movie is based on a live football match. Despite that the film remains very interesting till the end. A comedy that shows contemporary Iran's dillema.
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MCT:February 21, 2008Yet another brilliant jewel to emerge from Iran's new wave cinema - and ironically, for obvious reasons, no one in Iran will see it because it is not allowed to be screened there. The structure of this film is so organic it feels like a political documentary. Offside sheds light on the absurdity of the suffocating social bubble women are locked in in many middle eastern countries and emphasizes how communication can be the simple drive that can help dissolve those gender barriers. Using this type of witty allegory has always been writer/director Jafar Panahi's forte . His devastating human drama's are always perfectly balanced with a great deal of hope..
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MCT:February 20, 2008
A really good movie about six women trying to sneak into the World Cup qualifying game in Iran in 2006. Definitely worth a watch.
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MCT:January 31, 2008
DVD Catch Up: Offside(1/30/2008)
Now that 2007 is over and there?s nothing interesting coming out in the next month or so, I can really start to do a lot of catching up with all the things from the last year that I missed out on. Some of the things I missed out of disinterest or lazyness, while other things were missed out of sheer inopportunity, one such film is this small Iranian drama which was given a miniscule release last march, but eventually found its way onto a handful of top ten lists.
The film is set on the day of a big soccer match in Tehran between the Iranian national team and the Bahrain, if Iran wins or ties they will secure a spot in the 2006 world cup. The film documents a group of young women trying to see the game live in Azadi Stadium. The problem is that women are legally banned from entering the stadium under Iranian law. The law does little to deter hardcore female soccer fans from trying to sneak in, as is depicted in the opening scene of the film in which a girl tries to sneak in but is caught at the door.
This girl, like the rest of the characters, is unnamed throughout the film. She is brought to a makeshift cage outside the stadium which is guarded by three young soldiers serving their compulsory service in the Iranian army. The film proceeds to examine and challenge the Iranian gender restriction laws, focusing of course on the restrictions at sporting events.
What really makes the film work is the general absurdity of the situation at hand. For those who don?t know, Tehran doesn?t look anything like the rural mess most people think the Middle East is, it more or less looks like a modern urban environment. Yet in this modern environment (complete with cell phones), bizarre attitudes toward women still persist almost unchallenged.
The main reason men of power cite for the stadium restriction laws is that ?a stadium is no place for women? and ?if the team loses the men will begin cursing freely.? In other words, women aren?t allowed because it would force the male fans to restrain themselves in front of female spectators. Adding to the irony is that most of these female fans are interested in seeing the game out of purely patriotic interest in this big match. The girls are clad in Iranian flags and face paint and whenever they learn that the Iranian team has done something well they go into a nationalistic chant. By banning women from the game the nation has prevented a large portion of the population from engaging in a nationalistic celebration, and for no logical reason.
Acclaimed director Jafar Panahi appears to have shot the film on video, and in a vérité style that heightens the realism. All the characters are played by ordinary people rather than professional actors, but they seem to come across fine. Interestingly, large parts of the film were actually shot discreetly at the real game between Iran and Bahrain. There are authentic crowd scenes, and because of this the film?s structure would have had to have been massively reworked on the spot depending on the outcome of the game.
The plotline here may be a bit thin for most. The film essentially plays out in real time (90 minute film, 90 minute soccer match), is more of a slice of life than a fully realized story. The real joy here is in the interesting conversations that take place along the way, as well as the overall political statement the film makes. I was a bit disappointed in the film?s ending, which fails to examine the final consequences of the situation in order to more fully look at the link between the laws and nationalism. But overall this is definitely an interesting film worth seeing to spend some time in this foreign culture. -
MCT:December 29, 2007
This Movie shows some of the hardships faced by Iranian women in Iran. Very enjoyable and educational. A Must See for any women in America who thinks she has itough
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MCT:September 12, 2007Shit sandwich. Also, I don't whether it's the fault of the writer or the subtitles chap but the football play-by-play by the characters made absolutely no sense.
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MCT:August 28, 2007This sounds quite interesting. An innovative idea, though quite in line with the culture. I hope it turns out well!!
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MCT:July 18, 2007
Det er ikke akkurat bare bare å like fotball for jenter i Iran. De har ikke lov til å gå på fotballkamper, og prøver noen seg. slik som jentene i filmen. Blir de arrestert.
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MCT:July 15, 2007A surprisingly lighthearted satire of the Iranian practice of banning women from men's sporting events, this film tells the story of six girls who are caught trying to get into the match that could qualify Iran for the World Cup. The acting is great and the jokes are clever, and overall the film is just an entertaining comedy. It's definitely worth a look.
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MCT:July 9, 2007
Some girls have to be dressed like boys to watch a football game between Iran and bahrain coz in Iran ladies are not allowed to enter the stadium....what happens they are caught......very funny
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MCT:April 11, 2007
Im going to be onest here, i realy don´t like Swedish movies. Why? Couse the stories are almost the same.
They´re like a bad Hugh Grant movie...in fact almost every movie with hugh grant is bad.
Anyway this movie was quite good. -
MCT:March 26, 2007
A swedish movie about a football team coming closer to the final degradation. Then, it finds the solution: It's the English legend, the scorer in two FA Cup finals. But there's one problem when he arrives in Sweden. He's an alcoholic.
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MCT:January 13, 2007
A charming and funny swedish movie (not the one about six Iranian girls) with a little touch of drama. About a soccerteam in the lower divisions with funny characters, they are fighting for there team and recruit an old soccerpro from England.
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