panahi and whose previous film such a the circle and crimson gold have seem to range from dour to grim and have produce in his new offside a funny and obstreperous and joyously chaotic ensemble piece that end on a note of liberation and heartfelt fun yet the movie deal with material quite a challenging and relevant a anything else he do . by focus on a group of ardent girl soccer fan catch sneak into the pre world cup bahrain iran match in tehran stadium and panahi bring up issue of national spirit and independent mindedness and and the contradiction and sheer absurdity of the regime religious gender apartheid in a world of modern competition with a majority youth population and urban girl who increasingly think for themselves . a the film open we breathlessly join one of the girl in a bus and with a father purse a lose daughter . this one have a disguise and have national color a warpaint and but we cringe with her in the knowledge of what go to happen represent she still easily spot . the thing be and most of the men around do not really care . still and rule be rule and and once they try to make it through the various checkpoint on the way into the big stadium the would be soccer girl and or some of them anyway and get round up and hold in a little compound upstairs in the stadium by some mostly young and green and and rustic soldier cop who have no idea how to deal with these big city girl independent idea and would rather be watch the game whose roar we constantly hear in the background themselves . each girl be different represent a different set of reason for want to break the rule and different way of do it . one wear a soldier uniform and get into the officer section . one be tough and masculine and mocking and provocative ( she could pass for a pretty boy and and teasingly hint at that represent be you a girl or a boy . which would you like me to be . ) . one doesn not care very much about soccer but go to honor a dead comrade . one ( aida sadeghi ) be an ardent soccer player herself and so on . these tehrani girl be stubborn and smart and they walk all over the uptight rural lieutenant in charge of them ( safar samandar ) . one of the rural cop ( mohamad kheirabadi ) take the girl soccer player to the men restroom ( of course there no lady ) and force her to wear a poster of an italian football star a a mask . a comedy of error and chaos follow in which the girl escape . later a spiffy look van come with an officer who direct the cop to take the girl to the vice department violate sexual segregation rule qualifies a vice . a male get mixed in with them a kid who chronically guilty of smuggle firework into the game . the van turn out not to be so spiffy represent the radio aerial be break . but one cop hold it in place so they can listen to the increasingly heart stop reportage . cop and prisoner be all join in a common excitement now . there no score and the game go to penalty kick and and the winner will go to germany . in the background through all this be a real game and a real stadium and and real mass of young men crazy about the outcome of this event . the excitement be tremendous and and the street be jam with car and flag and a milling mob of supporter pray for an iranian win and unite in their excitement . what make this film so good and a may be clear by now and be that it shoot during the evening of an actual game with a real finale that turn everything around . this and in contrast to panahi previous highly calculated narrative trajectory and be spontaneous vérité film make that improvise in rhythm with a captured background of actual event and sweep you into it excitement in way that be quite thrill . the essence of offside be the disconnect between modern world soccer madness and retro islamic social prohibition repress woman the latter exist at a time when young iranian woman be become part of a global world in which female participate in sport and share in the ardor of national team spirit . how exactly do you reconcile the country ambition to become a modern global power with social attitude that be medieval . a lot of offisde be astonishingly real and include the way everybody try to talk their way out of everything . the director decision to inject young actor into an actual sport mega event lead to a stunningly effective blend of documentary and polemic and and fiction that be too energetic to seem to have a bone to pick and and that end in a way that brilliant and move . i have have reservation about panahi film before and but this one kick as . panahi do something remarkable here . he critique his society and present an unusual drama and and touch our heart with a sense of a nation aspiration .