How long of a ban did Panahi have on film - making ?
Dabashi called Panahi 's two post-arrest films " self - indulgent vagaries farthest removed from " his previous films and wrote that Panahi " should have heeded the vicious sentence and stayed away from his camera for a while and not indulge , for precisely the selfsame social punch that have made his best films knife - sharp precise has now dulled the wit of the filmmaker that was once able to put it to such magnificent use .