Jafar Panahi: having his cake

Despite his house arrest, and 20-year ban on making films, the Iranian director has released a movie – the unclassifiable This Is Not a Film, smuggled out of the country in a cake If one accepts Iran's ruling that Jafar Panahi is no longer a film-maker , then it follows that his latest release is an orphan, unnamed and unclassifiable; a 75-minute yawp in the darkness. "This Is Not a Film," the ...