Renowned Iranian director Jafar Panahi received a 6-year prison sentence and a 20-year ban from filmmaking and conducting interviews with foreign press due to his open support for the opposition party in Iran's 2009 election. In this film, which was shot secretly by Panahi's close friend Mojtaba Mirtahmasb and smuggled into France on a USB stick concealed inside a cake for a last-minute submission to Cannes, Panahi documents his daily life under house arrest as he awaits a decision on his appeal.
This Is Not a Film has generally received positive reviews.
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This Is Not a Film was released in 2011 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 128 reviews, giving This Is Not a Film (2011) an average rating of 73%.
Overall, film critics prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 88%, compared to cinema-goers, who gave it a lower average score of 70%. Professional critics were more impressed with This Is Not a Film than amateur reviewers were.
With a score of 73%, This Is Not a Film is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2011, which stands at 57%.
Other movies from 2011 with similar scores include films like Crazy, Stupid, Love., Shame and Winnie the Pooh.
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