生命的圆圈

本片讲述了7个伊朗女性的悲惨故事。妇女从医院领到了尚在襁褓中的女儿，但是她并不开心，因为此前的超声波显示，她怀了一个男童，如今倒凤颠鸾，令她措手不及。当地重男轻女的风俗，令她如堕冷宫。刚出狱的女孩跟女伴到处找钱，历尽千辛万苦，凑齐了钱，却最终怯于踏上返乡的列车。未婚先孕的少女被哥哥扫地出门，在男友死亡后只得去做了人工流产，出狱后的中年女人发现男人已出轨。当了护士的女孩想方设法帮她，自己的婚姻却陷入僵局…… 　　本片获57届威尼斯电影节最佳影片金狮奖。In a hospital waiting room a woman learns her daughter, Solmaz Gholami, has just given birth. The ultrasound test had prepared the family for a boy. The baby, it turns out, is a girl. The joy the mother anticipated turns to terror for she knows her son-in-law's family will abandon her daughter. The old woman flees as the in-laws arrive. On the crowded streets of Tehran - a place where women are not permitted to stay out on their own or smoke in public - two women are also on the run. Arezou and Nargess have just been granted temporary leave from prison but they have no plans to return. They manage to scrounge together enough money for the bus trip to Nargess' hometown, but she lacks proper identification, and the police are searching everyone at the station. Meanwhile, their friend Pari has just escaped from prison in order to have an abortion. Threatened with death by her brothers, she flees from her father's house and meets with a former inmate, Elham, who is now married to a doctor and works in a hospital. Despite her connections, Elham is unable to help Pari in her hour of need. Despondent, Pari wanders the streets and chances upon Nayereh, a woman about to abandon her young daughter. Pari tries to stop her, but it is too late. Soon after, Nayareh, falsely accused of prostitution, is taken into custody by the police. As Panahi's narrative shifts dynamically from woman to woman, their stories culminate with tremendous potency, transforming a shared sense of despair and injustice into one kinship, and even hope.